The Asbury Park City Council will meet Wednesday in Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. A 4 p.m. Executive Session precedes the 6 p.m. Workshop. The Regular Session meeting begins at 7 p.m, with public participation taking place at the beginning of the regular meeting. Items on the agenda include: • […]

The handcrafted Asbury Park Distilling sign signals what is to come in March [if permit and licensing remains on track], but for managing partner Andy Karas, it’s a 2½-year long journey based in family roots. “My grandfather was a bootlegger during prohibition,” said Karas, a Ridgewood resident. “I never in my life could have imagined […]

The initial design Carter Sackman and his team presented before the Planning Board Monday night for a 60-unit residential complex on Lake Avenue was not the design the board members ultimately affirmed. The project, located at 545 Lake Ave, aims to transform the existing 59-stall parking lot between the Asbury Park Festhalle & Biergarten and […]

There are three critical elements to the proposed mixed use high rise Sackman Enterprises wants to bring to the downtown, project attorney Andrew Karas said during the plan’s unveiling Monday night at the Asbury Park City Council meeting. The first on the list would be adding much needed parking via a six-story garage. A total […]

Sackman Enterprises will introduce design plans to construct an urban farm grocery store at its current parking lot on Mattison Avenue during  Monday’s 6 p.m. Asbury Park City Council meeting. The site sits between Bond and Emory streets, Bangs and Mattison avenues. Enveloped by a proposed mixed use high rise, conceptual plans include reconfiguring the […]

The Asbury Park City Council is scheduled to hold a workshop meeting 6 p.m. Monday in Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 1 Municipal Plaza. A public participation session will take place near the end of the workshop meeting, following comments from city officials. Items on the meeting’s agenda include: • A review of […]

Downtown developer Sackman Enterprises has closed on the purchase of the historic Kinmouth building at a purchase price of $2.47 million, according to city records. Sackman will move forward with plans to rehabilitate the Savoy Theatre, a 100-year-old former Vaudeville venue that has been vacant for decades located inside the building, and add a residential component of […]

City administration and downtown Asbury Park developer Sackman Enterprises have worked out a tentative agreement on five years’ worth of payments owed to the city on the Steinbach building. The amounts  are owed under a payment in lieu of taxes [PILOT] agreement for the residential portion of the restored building located in the downtown business […]