The Asbury Park City Council has announced Community Input Meetings that will help to craft a Master Plan Reexamination Report. Based on New Jersey Municipal Land Use Law [MLUL], established in 1975, a municipality’s Master Plan is not only a road map for planning and development but ultimately establishes the foundation for what is a […]

The Planning Board has granted preliminary approval to local developer Pat Fasano for his proposed Dollar Tree, parking lot, and four apartment construction along the 1100 block of Main Street’s west side [shown above] between Third and Fourth Avenue. It’s been more than a year since Fasano was granted an initial preliminary approval to redevelop […]

A key member of the new mayor and council’s administrative staff announced his resignation Thursday. In a written letter addressed to his “friends and colleagues”, 11-year city hall veteran Donald Sammet announced his last day on the job will be April 2. Sammet [shown right] served as the city’s director of planning and redevelopment. “I […]

Motorists venturing down to the Asbury Park waterfront this weekend were met with a slight shift in vehicular traffic along Kingsley Avenue. Instead of the normal through traffic they were stalled by an enclosed fenced in area that included large cylindrical storm drains, yellow bulldozers and cranes. The road closure, between First and Third avenues […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, As the summer comes to a close and fall creeps up on us I look at Asbury Park and wonder, what does the future holds for us? It was another successful summer for the beachfront and major development is finally coming to to the West Side. The two projects on […]

City council members present at last night’s council meeting unanimously approved a waterfront infrastructure funding plan that has proven to be controversial at recent meetings. Mayor Ed Johnson, Deputy Mayor John M. Loffredo, Councilwoman Sue Henderson and Councilman Kevin Sanders all voted in favor of the ordinance enacting the plan. Councilman James Bruno was absent. The […]

Officials representing the city and iStar Financial last night unveiled  a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes program intended to pave the way for $58 million in waterfront infrastructure improvement, as well as facilitate the redevelopment process. “This is probably one of the most unique, fair and equitable financing programs ever in the state,” city redevelopment attorney Glenn Scotland said […]

Restoration of the Savoy Theatre is one step closer to completion thanks to an ordinance passed by the city council on Nov. 19. The ordinance has two purposes — to increase the allowed height at the building’s site and to decrease the parking requirement for studio apartments. The Savoy is located inside the Kinmonth Building […]

Construction at the Vive townhome site has been delayed until the city and waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners, led by its majority owner iStar Financial, can come to a financial agreement. The agreement involves infrastructure work in the waterfront area, city manager Terence Reidy said. The agreement will “establish a template that will move all of […]

The city is one small step closer to a new park on Springwood Avenue. Workers removed oil tanks [pictured at right] from the block of Springwood where the park is planned, between Union and Atkins avenues, on Monday. One of the tanks had a leak, so the soil around that tank must be taken out, […]