By the summer of 2016, the long-vacant former Salvation Army building will host its first overnight guests in over ten years. The Asbury Park Planning Board granted unanimous approval Monday to master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial for their 110-room boutique hotel project planned for the site, located on the block bound by Kingsley, Fourth and Fifth avenues […]

Asbury Lanes is not the only bowling alley which has caught the eye of waterfront redeveloper IStar Financial. The corporation is acquiring 58 bowling centers around the country from sports equipment manufacturer Brunswick Corporation, according to an Aug. 1 report in the Commercial Observer website. IStar did not return a call from the Commercial Observer seeking […]

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 […]

Editor, Asbury Park Sun, This letter is in response to the July 18th Asbury Park Sun article, “IStar removes surfboards at Bradley Cove site,” [July 18] which includes the text of a full written statement from waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial in regard their removal of a surfboard that signified a commitment to development at the […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Residential has removed the surfboard it placed on the North End beach. The surfboards were placed at the beginning of July on sites throughout the waterfront  to represent future projects the redeveloper will bring to the city. “Every surfboard represents a future project that we are working on, or will be working on, […]

Native tree species will be placed where palm trees once provided shelter from the sun in the “Summer Experience” shaded hammock garden, previously the site of the Vive sales trailer. The Asbury Park planning board Monday gave unanimous approval for master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial to swap out the palms, which they had trucked up […]

The city and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette may soon reach an agreement that would see operations of three waterfront parking lots put back under Madison Marquette’s control. As a result, Madison Marquette has started the first phase of a state-mandated sprinkler system installation in the Convention Hall complex. The redeveloper had previously stated that the […]

Discussions between city and county officials to preserve the last tract of developable open space on Monmouth County’s coastline are moving forward. At Tuesday’s council meeting, Acting City Manager Tony Nuccio informed members of city council that, as per their request, he reached out to county representatives to resume talks between the two parties to discuss […]

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 […]

Waterfront redeveloper iStar Residential has signed an agreement with K. Hovnanian Homes to build townhouses on the western edge of the Asbury Park waterfront redevelopment zone on Grand Avenue. The project will be located at the intersection of Grand and Monroe avenues, according to a news release issued by iStar this morning. K. Hovnanian Homes […]