Three temporary parking lots approved during Monday night’s Planning Board meeting are expected to launch in time for the summer season. Presented by waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial, the parking lots are meant to help alleviate parking constraints brought on by the city’s revitalization. This winter, residents and business owners voiced concerns about increasingly limited parking […]

City officials are in the midst of reviewing sections of agreements drawn up with waterfront redevelopers that outline developers’ responsibilities to hire local workers and purchase local building products. The agreements with master waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners [majority owned by iStar Financial] and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette contain language that the developers make efforts to […]

Pieces of the old Palace Amusements building that were saved when the site was demolished ten years ago will be looked at once again by an independent conservator Thursday. The inspection will be conducted by Paul Himmelstein, an independent, professional conservator who specializes in preventative conservation and paid for by the nonprofit group Save Tillie. Himmelstein […]

A Grand Avenue building [right] which last housed a Felix Fox paint store was demolished today on a site slated for townhouse development. Waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners, which is majority owned by iStar Financial, announced last month that it had signed an agreement with K. Hovnanian Homes to build “luxury townhomes” on the tract where […]

The city is looking to reopen discussions with county officials to purchase a tract of land in Asbury Park where the Marine Grill restaurant once stood, now known as Bradley Cove. Members of the City Council voted to resume conversations with the Monmouth County Board of Recreation Commissioners as to what can be done to […]

As part of the waterfront redevelopment project, demolition has begun on a Grand Avenue building that last housed a Felix Fox paint store. The brick structure [above] had been hollowed out as of Tuesday morning. Demolition of the structure is expected to take two weeks, according to Brian Cheripka, vice president of land for iStar […]

The longstanding skeleton of the Esperanza building will be partially covered with a decorative scrim this summer. Waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners is planning to bring bath houses and lockers to the waterfront area through the proposed Summer Experience, and placing a scrim on the Esperanza is part of that plan, said Brian Cheripka at the […]

Waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners is pitching a new plan to keep visitors in the city longer on hot summer days. The initiative, dubbed “Summer Experience,” would temporarily bring bath houses, changing rooms and hammocks to the city’s waterfront redevelopment area. Visitors would buy seasonal memberships to use the stations. Asbury Partners is seeking the city’s […]

The city and waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners have finally reached an agreement regarding three surface parking lots in the waterfront area. The lots are located adjacent to the Carousel building at the end of Cookman Avenue; on Ocean Avenue between Second and Third avenues [pictured above]; and on Fourth Avenue next to the Wonder Bar. In […]

Ownership of the Asbury Lanes building is changing hands from Pat Fasano and Vince Gifford to waterfront redeveloper Asbury Partners. The switch is part of a land exchange wherein Fasano and Gifford will give Asbury Partners three lots, and Asbury Partners will give them three lots. The transfer of deeds will likely take place lot-by-lot […]