A major Asbury Park business reopens from the Covid pandemic with the Asbury Lanes opening its doors tonight [Oct. 23] for its Friday night movie and dinner program. Other weekend programming will follow. “The Lanes returns as Asbury’s premier socially distanced indoor hangout, blending ticketed events with open lounge and bowling hours. Come to sip […]

Asbury Park gets an Aussie moment for a good cause this Sunday afternoon, January 12, with the “Greetings from AUSbury Park” benefit at Asbury Lanes to benefit those impacted by the devastating Australian Wildfires.  Doors open at 3 pm for an “Australian Afternoon” with Australian food, games, drinks and trivia. Cost is $20 at the […]

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 […]

Salt School, the hospitality training program created locally by David Bowd of Salt Hotels, graduated its fourth class of students Saturday and now has plans to roll the program out across the nation. “David Bowd and Jenni Loughman continue to do an amazing job with the Salt School; training, working with, and hiring people from […]

Asbury Ocean Club hotel, currently underway by waterfront redeveloper iStar, is on track to open this summer, project officials announced Wednesday in a written news statement. The 54-room luxury beach hideaway in the sky, complete with locally-inspired designs and views of water or dunes from its terrace, is located along Ocean Avenue between Third and […]

Salt School hospitality training for 140 perspective employees began Saturday morning at the Monmouth County Boys and Girls Club, located at 1201 Monroe Ave. This is the fourth rendition of the intensive course aimed at educating participants in the art of receiving and serving guests of hotels, restaurants and entertainment venues. This time around, the […]

Applications will be accepted from January 24 to February 5 for the Salt School, a multi-week program developed by The Asbury hotel’s management company to provide an introduction to the hospitality industry and recruit Asbury Park residents as employees.  This year the Salt School is geared toward recruiting city residents as employees for the expected […]

Showcasing an array of hidden talents, The Asbury – Hotel and Lanes – staff came together Sunday to honor Brian Holland in support of Garden State Equality. The 37-year-old, who served as regional director of employee experience at The Asbury, was struck and fatally injured last month at the Sunset Avenue train crossing. “His personality […]

The Asbury Park Chamber of Commerce paid homage Friday night to what Executive Director Sylvia Sylvia-Cioffi calls ‘champions of our beloved city’ during the annual Carousel Award event at Convention Hall, located on the AP Boardwalk. This year’s event included video presentations by John Kaplow of NJ Media Works. The award recipients were given proclamations […]

From the dozen Asbury Park High School student to adults of all ages looking to carve out a new career path or for that after retirement job, the Salt School students all had very distinctive reasons for attending last month’s abridged, three session hospitality tutorial. Created by hotelier David Bowd [at right with COO Jennifer […]