By the summer of 2016, the long-vacant former Salvation Army building will host its first overnight guests in over ten years. The Asbury Park Planning Board granted unanimous approval Monday to master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial for their 110-room boutique hotel project planned for the site, located on the block bound by Kingsley, Fourth and Fifth avenues […]

Think you know the Asbury Park boardwalk?  Which one?  Asbury Park has had two Casinos, three Asbury Avenue pavilions, two Natatoriums, and innumerable amusement rides in the past 125 years — and that includes only the first two-block area. Join the Asbury Park Historical Society for “Greetings from Asbury Park(s): A 125-Year Stroll Down the Boardwalk” […]

Some borough residents complained about the long wait time to rent a beach club cabana at last night’s board of commissioner’s meeting, and suggested the commissioners change the rules. “Considering that our beach is basically wiped out, this is possibly a good time to try and create a more fair and equitable policy on renting the […]

The city is seeking contractors, builders and developers for its upcoming Springwood Avenue redevelopment, and officials hope to give the jobs to local residents if possible. “We don’t want to give [the project] to any one developer,” said redevelopment and planning director Donald Sammet. “We want to be sure that there are a number of […]

The last empty building on the boardwalk will soon be back in business. Boadwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette is renovating the shuttered Sunset Avenue Pavilion to reopen it for May’s Bamboozle festival. The boardwalk redeveloper seeks to “make the building active again instead of it laying there boarded up,” city redevelopment and planning director Donald Sammet said at Wednesday’s […]

The green-tinged decorative copper panels that went missing from Convention Hall recently are largely considered to be gone for good, but an official from Madison Marquette announced at last night’s council meeting the boardwalk redeveloper will replace them. “It is a tragedy,” said Keith Ortner, Madison Marquette’s vice president of development. “We as a company […]

Reacting to the theft of thirty-four decorative copper panels once on Convention Hall, the Asbury Park Historical Society will request the city council and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette disclose more information about the incident. At an emergency meeting on Saturday, the Historical Society Board of Trustees — several shown above — also tentatively agreed to ask […]

The Asbury Park Historical Society will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to develop a plan of action for recovering a historic set of panels.  The panels, pictured above, reportedly went missing from Convention Hall last year. Boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette reported the 34 panels stolen from Convention Hall, said Celia Morrissette Johnson, president of the […]