The 10th annual Mayor’s Ball is just around the corner and Mayor Ed Johnson recently announced the event’s honorees. The ball, set for Sept. 8 at the Stone Pony, is a fundraiser for a scholarship fund for local students who are going to college or technical school. Proceeds from the event also benefit recreation programs, […]

Among the most memorable lines of Governor Chris Christie’s tenure was his demand that sunbathers “get the hell off the beach in Asbury Park” as Hurricane Irene approached last summer. Christie will make the opposite pitch at a 3 p.m. news conference Monday at the Asbury Park boardwalk to promote the Jersey Shore, according to […]

Key redevelopment players Madison Marquette and iStar Financial have bound themselves together more closely as a result of a deal the two announced on Thursday. Under the agreement, two undeveloped tracts held by Madison Marquette will be transferred to Asbury Partners, which is currently owned by iStar, according to iStar’s vice president of land Brian […]

Despite an in-depth presentation on curb bump-outs at last week’s council meeting, the council once again saw a tie vote, meaning curb extensions will not be allowed at the Vive condominium site on Kingsley Street any time soon. City redevelopment and planning director Don Sammet and iStar Financial vice president of land Brian Cheripka delivered […]

Madison Marquette is set to test a lighting system on the boardwalk that is “more than just lights,” according to its director of retail services Carrie Turner. Turner attended last week’s council meeting to pitch the lighting system to the governing body with the help of city engineer Joe Cunha and iStar Financial vice president […]

The Arthur Pryor band shell above the Sunset Avenue pavilion has been stripped down to its steel shell, as the wood on the structure was rotting and becoming a safety hazard, according to officials of the city and boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette. Asbury Park director of planning and redevelopment Donald Sammet, who confirmed that the […]

The last empty building on the boardwalk will soon be back in business. Boadwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette is renovating the shuttered Sunset Avenue Pavilion to reopen it for May’s Bamboozle festival. The boardwalk redeveloper seeks to “make the building active again instead of it laying there boarded up,” city redevelopment and planning director Donald Sammet said at Wednesday’s […]