A new liquor license for iStar Financial’s 110-room boutique hotel will be voted on Wednesday by the City Council. The city’s special development counsel Jennifer Credidio said the liquor license award is conditional, requiring a background check. Municipal background checks to investigate the source of funds used to purchase the license as well as state […]

City Manager John “Jack” Kelly and Asbury Park Police Chief Mark Kinmon are scheduled to meet Thursday with the owners of one of the city’s most popular restaurants to discuss several quality of life issues that crop up when the restaurant morphs into a late night dance club on the weekends. The meeting stems from […]

Asbury Park developer Patrick Fasano got the final thumbs up from the City Council Tuesday on an application to extend the liquor license from Bond Street Bar to an adjacent building that once housed several retail stores on Cookman Avenue. Liquor licenses can be extended to contiguous properties that a license holder owns or leases. The […]

John McGillion, owner of Johnny Mac House of Spirits on Main Street, is under contract to add another liquor establishment to his portfolio of Asbury Park properties. McGillion has bought the Cameo bar, housed in a landmark art deco structure on Main Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues, he said. The closing of title on […]