RED BANK: RiverCenter taps a downtown-management professional with extensive experience in New York and New Jersey as executive director.

RED BANK: Continuing restaurant staff shortages and other issues cited as RiverCenter cancels spring food festival slated for May 15.

RED BANK: Council approves $1.3M water line not originally included in Broad Street dig; town will eat connection costs landlords had feared.

RED BANK: Extending its buying spree, Denholtz scoops up key sites at the south end of downtown, including a parking lot that cries out for development.

RED BANK: Via RiverCenter, downtown landlords push back on possible bills for leaking water lines, telling council, "you broke it, you fix it."

RED BANK: New community planning director offers a primer in zoning and land-use law, but steers clear of third-rail topics like tax abatements.

RED BANK: Amid a mix of praise and misgivings, Broadwalk begins an extension month, to be followed by major construction project.

RED BANK: Mumford yanks plan for Shrewsbury Avenue apartments after stream of complaints about gentrifying impact on neighborhood.

RED BANK: RiverCenter names Samantha Bowers-Crader board chairperson, a position held by her father three decades ago.

RED BANK: RiverCenter names former borough planning director Glenn Carter as executive director, succeeding Laura Kirkpatrick.

RED BANK: Council meeting includes loose-lip disclosures about a lawsuit settlement with Riverview and misgivings about a new borough official.

RED BANK: Council to take up measures on weeds, window screens and the future of the Riverside Gardens Park Wednesday. Here's an agenda scan.

RED BANK: Hearing on 59-unit apartment project on Monmouth Street begins with focus on other density variances near the train station.

RED BANK: Hearing on massive development proposed for West Front Street block gets underway with hints of concern about size, height and traffic impacts.

RED BANK: Urban planning students to solicit public input for improving Shrewsbury Avenue and a theoretical Broad-to-the-River project.

RED BANK: Borough to create application and review of mural requests, but will avoid trespassing on First Amendment issues, Shehady says.

RED BANK: Allowing food trucks on private property appears to have council backing. RiverCenter, which has opposed the idea in the past, hasn't said no.

RED BANK: Borough rejects its first application for a medical marijuana store over concern about law on proximity to schools.

RED BANK: An effort to give teeth to the Historic Preservation Commission leaves a bad taste for some planning board members.

RED BANK: Plan for rehabbing old firehouse includes using 150-year-old brick recycled from a house recently demolished in Brooklyn.