Calling all job seekers ages 16 to 24, a Young Adult Job Fair will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Salvation Army building [shown above], located at 605 Asbury Ave. Presented by Monmouth County’s Division of Workforce Development, no registration is required but attendees should come dressed to impress and bring […]

The Asbury hotel, the first hotel to open in Asbury Park in over 50 years, will host a lineup of Pride-inspired events this weekend. Kicking off the festivities is the weekly weekend opener – Friday Night Tea Dance – from 4 to 8 p.m. on the Fifth Avenue hotel’s roof space named for the shuttered […]

Larhea Childress, a 15-year-old Asbury Park High School student readying for her first job, graduated Saturday morning from the SALT school. “The hospitality industry is one of the largest things that helps people on a daily basis,” Childress said after receiving her diploma. As part of the school district’s Career and College Readiness program, Childress […]

The Asbury, the city’s first new hotel in over 50 years, is showing signs of readiness. Due to open May 26, the 110-room boutique hotel at the former Salvation Army Building is nearing completion. The Asbury is a collaboration between design veteran Anda Andrei, formerly with Ian Schrager Company, and hotel innovator David Bowd of Salt Hotels. The Asbury […]

The Asbury is now online and taking reservations, waterfront master redeveloper iStar Financial announced today. Due to open May 26, the 110-room boutique hotel at the former Salvation Army Building is in the midst of redevelopment. The Asbury is a collaboration between design veteran Anda Andrei, formerly with Ian Schrager Company, and hotel innovator David Bowd of Salt Hotels. The […]

When The Asbury, opens next spring it will be the city’s first new hotel in close to 50 years, according to a news release issued Monday by waterfront redeveloper iStar. Slated for a May 2016 completion, the 110-room boutique hotel at the long vacant Salvation Army building on Fifth Avenue is among the first of […]

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 […]

Asbury Lanes, the vintage bowling alley and live music venue will close for renovations in October, and waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial, which owns the building, is now in the process of deciding who will handle booking the entertainment when it reopens. The lease for the building expires at the end of September, according to a […]

By the summer of 2016, the long-vacant former Salvation Army building will host its first overnight guests in over ten years. The Asbury Park Planning Board granted unanimous approval Monday to master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial for their 110-room boutique hotel project planned for the site, located on the block bound by Kingsley, Fourth and Fifth avenues […]

The Asbury Park City Council voted Wednesday to grant conceptual approval on a re-adaptive use project to turn the Salvation Army building, located at 200 Fifth Avenue, into a boutique hotel. Master waterfront redeveloper iStar Financial brought in Manhattan-based architectural firm Stonehill & Taylor  to transform the long-vacant building into an 110-room hotel with a […]