The Save Asbury’s Waterfront (SAW) group has issued a statement regarding the compliance of a controversial boardwalk beach club — approved by the Planning Board earlier this month — with National Flood Insurance Program (NPIP) standards. SAW states that the “approval of the application in its current form might jeopardize the City’s participation in national […]

Editor, the Asbury Park Sun, Asbury Park’s waterfront developer iStar Financial, Inc. will present its plans for a membership-based beach and pool club 6 pm May 29. The beach club is being marketed as an amenity to the recently developed high-rise luxury condo and hotel, The Asbury Ocean Club. Hundreds of concerned residents, environmental advocates […]

Editor, Asbury Sun, On behalf of Save Asbury’s Waterfront [SAW], I wish to respond to three statements made in the Asbury Park Sun’s Dec 5th article regarding iStar’s beach club plans. 1) “During the design process, iStar met with members of the local community to discuss the project…” The last public-wide meeting where information about […]

The grassroots group organized to halt a current boardwalk and parking lot infrastructure improvement project by iStar, the city’s master waterfront redeveloper, has organized a rally and press conference ahead of the 6 pm Thursday City Council Workshop meeting in Council Chambers at 1 Municipal Plaza [Bangs Avenue entrance].   iStar will outline the project […]

Environmental concerns along Asbury Park’s waterfront have taken center stage once again.  A recently launched north end infrastructure improvement project by iStar – the city’s master waterfront redeveloper, resulted in the Friday morning launch of a petition to halt the redevelopment. Save Asbury Park, the grassroots group behind the fight to preserve a swath of […]