Returning from the drawing board, local redeveloper Sackman Enterprises Wednesday presented proposals for three redevelopment projects in the city’s downtown that will require amendments to the Central Business District Redevelopment Plan. The project sneak peaks included the informally known Barry Slot Building [at right] located at 574 Cookman, the 711 Mattison Avenue site, and the […]

The City’s Zoning Board of Adjustment has granted College Achieve of Greater Asbury Park the right to open a second location inside First Baptist Church, located at Third and Grand avenues this week. “I am very happy with the outcome,” CEO and Founder Michael Piscal said. The K through 9 public charter school opened this fall inside […]

College Achieve Greater Asbury Park Public Charter School will open August 28 despite its pending hearings before the Zoning Board of Adjustment, founder Michael Piscal said. The charter school is currently seeking a use determination to open a second location inside First Baptist Church at 508 Grand Ave. But a challenge of the school’s right […]

There are three critical elements to the proposed mixed use high rise Sackman Enterprises wants to bring to the downtown, project attorney Andrew Karas said during the plan’s unveiling Monday night at the Asbury Park City Council meeting. The first on the list would be adding much needed parking via a six-story garage. A total […]

Sackman Enterprises will introduce design plans to construct an urban farm grocery store at its current parking lot on Mattison Avenue during  Monday’s 6 p.m. Asbury Park City Council meeting. The site sits between Bond and Emory streets, Bangs and Mattison avenues. Enveloped by a proposed mixed use high rise, conceptual plans include reconfiguring the […]

The Asbury Park Planning Board approved a recommendation Monday to change the downtown redevelopment plan to help make way for the city’s first craft distillery. The site of the proposed distillery is within the city’s Central Business District [CBD] redevelopment zone. The distillery is considered a light manufacturing use, and light industry is not permitted […]

Downtown Asbury Park could be the home of the state’s first gin and whiskey distillery since prohibition. Asbury Park Distilling, LLC. submitted plans Friday to open a 4,000 square foot craft distillery at 527 Lake Ave., on the corner of Lake Avenue and Press Plaza. The distillery would be located within the same building as the […]