The Asbury Park Master Plan Reexamination Report was unanimously adopted by the Planning Board Monday night. The Report serves as an update to what is is essentially the City’s planning and development road map, and included changes based on community comments made during its unveiling earlier this fall and online. “Subsequent to that last meeting…and […]

A draft Master Plan Reexamination report will be unveiled 7 p.m. Sept. 18 and the public will have an opportunity to ask questions and share comments, officials have announced. The Master Plan is a comprehensive outline of the city’s long-range land use vision moving forward. The examination was led by a subcommittee comprised of Chair […]

The Dollar Tree and proposed retail/apartment building proposed by local developer Pat Fasano was awarded unanimous approval Monday by the Asbury Park Planning Board. Fasano Properties Vice President of Real Estate Development William Stuckey [at right] gave an overview of the project, which will transform the Main Street block between Third and Fourth avenues via […]

After hearing the testimony from four different applicants, leaving just 45 minutes remaining in the meeting, members of the Asbury Park planning board voted to postpone K. Hovnanian’s application to build 28 townhomes in the western waterfront to a special meeting to be held June 19. The board also granted permission by a 6-2 vote […]

Mayor Myra Campbell has selected a member of the city’s clergy to be her representative on the Asbury Park Planning Board. City resident Rev. Kenneth Mitchem, pastor of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Cookman Avenue, will join the board as the mayor’s designee. Mitchem is a retired Marine, she said. He keeps an element […]

The Asbury Park Technical Review Committee [TRC] is scheduled to meet Wednesday in council chambers at 6 p.m. to discuss plans for a new development of town homes in the city. Asbury Partners, LLC, is the applicant. Waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial  — the majority owner of Asbury Partners — signed an agreement in November with national homebuilder K. […]

Developers of a live action theater currently under renovation on Cookman Avenue have requested the city’s permission to add a marquee sign to the front facade [shown above]. Sackman Enterprises attorney Andrew Karas for Cookman Community Development Urban Renewal, LLC, owned by downtown developer Sackman Enterprises, made a presentation to the city’s planning board Monday evening […]

An old shopping center that fronts Memorial Drive between Fifth and Sunset Avenues is expected to get a major facelift. Representatives of property owners Ron-Vin LLC. made a presentation to the Asbury Park Planning Board Monday that outlined their intention to redesign the structure. A new complex would house nine businesses, including two anchor businesses […]

Members of the Asbury Park planning board voted Monday to amend the preliminary and end site plan agreements for the Vive townhome complex. The amendment addresses the number of trellises that will be installed on the upper balconies of the units and how many windows will feature a Bahaman-style shade, which had been at issue […]

Boardwalk redeveloper Madison Marquette last night received the approval of the city’s planning board to amend the way in which it will commission an artist to complete a boardwalk art project. The vote was 4-0. The project is an “exterior feature,” or what Madison Marquette has dubbed “the art wall,” [shown above] located on the […]