Final project approvals were granted Wednesday by the Asbury Park City Council for iStar’s 1101 Ocean Avenue mixed use development. In its role as the municipality’s redevelopment authority, the City Council unanimously granted the master waterfront redeveloper a subsequent developer’s agreement that includes a Payment in Lieu of Taxes [PILOT] structure that will allay the […]

Changes to waterfront redeveloper iStar’s renovation of the 1960’s era Asbury Lanes will come back before the Planning Board 7 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. The popular venue closed a year ago for a redesign that included a new roof and interior walls, an update of the kitchen and its […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, After patting himself on the back for the wonderful things they have accomplished, iStar VP Brian Cheripka started pointing the finger at Madison Marquette for their failure to develop the casino building. (“IStar annual community update asks for unity” posted Aug 1.) In my humble opinion, if it were not for […]

The Monroe’s 34-unit luxury condominiums along the Asbury Park waterfront officially landed on the sales market this weekend. Officials said 15 units have sold thus far and open houses will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. In a partnership with Sroka Worldwide Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate, master waterfront […]

In an open letter to the community dated Aug. 10, City Manager Michael Capabianco [at right below] posted a response to comments Brian Cheripka of iStar made during a recent Homeowners Association meeting. Below is the letter in its entirety: On Saturday, July 30th, Brian Cheripka of iStar provided the Asbury Park Homeowners Association with an update […]

In his annual address to the city’s Homeowner’s Association, iStar Senior Vice President of Land and Development Brian Cheripka outlined not only the waterfront redeveloper’s goals and initiatives moving forward but made a plea for the community to work together as a whole. Cheripka [at right] asked the standing room only crowd Saturday morning inside Langosta […]

A decade’s long quest to save their 1883 Victorian home on Seventh Avenue was realized Wednesday morning, when Richard and Johna Karpinski moved the three-story house across the street to Webb. “We’ve owned the house for 27 years,” Johna Karpinski said. “We bought it as an investment property with the idea that we would want […]

The Asbury Park School District recognized over a dozen individuals and organizations for helping to forward its mission of Building a Brighter Future for its students through an inaugural Hard Hat Award ceremony at Tuesday’s Board of Education Meeting. The symbolic white hard hat represents a vision based on Superintendent Lamont Repollet’s vision to Restore, […]

After touring neighboring Ocean Grove’s downtown, Republican Governor Chris Christie stopped by The Asbury, the city’s first hotel [of its size] in over 50 years, before taking a walk along the city’s boardwalk. Christie and Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin were escorted onto the Baronet, a rooftop deck overlooking waterfront and city landscape, […]

Recently, a Travel and Leisure magazine writer said of Fourth Avenue’s Asbury Lanes, “Shore punks flock to this bowling alley for rock shows and a friendly bar.” And The Menzingers in the April 27 Consequence of Sound piece entitled “The Greatest American Music Venues” — that asked performers to name their favorite venue — said […]