NEWARK, N.J., Sept. 4 (UPI) -- Rock star Jon Bon Jovi has helped break ground on a planned $15 million affordable-housing project his non-profit helped finance in Newark, N.J.
Bon Jovi attended the groundbreaking for the project this week with Newark Mayor Cory Booker and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. The singer's Philadelphia Soul Charitable Foundation is contributing about $1 million, while Newark and New Jersey are bankrolling the bulk of the cost for the 51-unit project, called Genesis Apartments, the Newark Star-Ledger reported.