The City’s newest boutique hotel – Asbury Ocean Club – set open during the July Fourth holiday weekend, is now accepting reservations, iStar officials have confirmed. The 54-room luxury hotel, designed to bring an effortless beach lifestyle to the Jersey Shore, occupies the fourth floor of the 17-story mixed-use curved glass structure by the same […]

The Asbury, the city’s first new hotel in over 50 years, is showing signs of readiness. Due to open May 26, the 110-room boutique hotel at the former Salvation Army Building is nearing completion. The Asbury is a collaboration between design veteran Anda Andrei, formerly with Ian Schrager Company, and hotel innovator David Bowd of Salt Hotels. The Asbury […]

The underlying focus moving forward will be to keep Asbury Park’s spirit and to help create job opportunities and training programs for local businesses and residents, iStar Financial Senior Vice President of Land and Development, Brian Cheripka said during Saturday morning’s Homeowner’s Association meeting at Langosta Lounge. An example of the latter is the Summer […]

The Asbury Park City Council voted Wednesday to grant conceptual approval on a re-adaptive use project to turn the Salvation Army building, located at 200 Fifth Avenue, into a boutique hotel. Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial brought in Manhattan-based architectural firm Stonehill & Taylor  to transform the long-vacant building into an 110-room hotel with a […]

Breathing new life into the long-vacant Salvation Army building is the next project master redeveloper iStar Residential hopes to undertake along the Asbury Park waterfront. Through adaptive re-use, iStar intends to revamp the decades-old structure into an 110-room boutique hotel with an outdoor swimming pool, bars and both indoor and outdoor event facilities — which will […]