[6] Gateway Park is owned by Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority (CCMUA) and is managed by New Jersey Conservation Foundation.

[7] The area for Gateway Park was previously populated with gas stations, seedy bars, motels and illicit activity.

This was in preparation for the 2000 republican national convention in Philadelphia and the anticipated flux of visitors who would be traveling past this location to their hotels in the suburbs.

The Delaware River Port Authority bought the land and removed the unsightly properties and planted grass and laid down an asphalt walking path.

[9] Although the park was established in 2000,[10] the land remained vacant and closed due to environmental issues for about 11 years before pressure from local advocacy groups resulted in the Delaware River Port Authority cleaning up the area to ready it for the promised public park.