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RED BANK: RAYRAP PROJECT GETS UNDERWAY
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RED BANK: House fire? Quick demolition? What's Going Here? Here's the scoop about recent activity at Harding and Hudson, the site of RayRap's long-awaited project.
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March 21st, 2018 @ 9am
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RED BANK: SICKLES ENTERING LIQUOR BIZ
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RED BANK: The Sickles Market Provisions planned for the long-vacant Anderson Storage building will feature a liquor store, redbankgreen has learned.
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January 30th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: Ticket sales rose for the fourth straight year at the Count Basie in 2017, making it the state's top venue of its size once again.
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January 8th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: HOVNANIAN HQ GOES FOR $42.5M
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RED BANK: OceanFirst's $42.5 million purchase of Hovnanian HQ may be a record price for the borough.
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December 1st, 2017 @ 6am
RED BANK: OceanFirst plans to buy headquarters of homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises on West Front Street, redbankgreen has learned.
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September 7th, 2017 @ 1pm
RED BANK: HOVNANIAN SELLING HOME OFFICE
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RED BANK: Homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises, its output shrunken, plans to sell its gleaming headquarters here and move to Matawan.
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September 7th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: RAYRAP HOME PLAN WINS FINAL OK
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RED BANK: Developer Ray Rapcavage wins final approval for 18 homes with a huge garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.
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August 7th, 2017 @ 9am
RED BANK: CRAFT BREWERY LEASES FIREHOUSE
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RED BANK: In another sign of a possible tsunami of craft beer coming to downtown, the former firehouse on White Street has been leased to a startup brewery,
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August 3rd, 2017 @ 12pm
RED BANK: The median police salary in New Jersey crossed the $100,000 mark in 2016, and most of the towns on the Greater Green were in step.
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May 9th, 2017 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SICKLES BREWS BOOSKERDOO DEAL
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RED BANK: The 'Sickles Market Provisions' planned for the long-vacant Anderson Storage building will feature a Booskerdoo coffee kiosk.
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May 2nd, 2017 @ 5pm
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER MAKEOVER OK’D
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FAIR HAVEN: Acme shopping center makeover approved, minus a large sign that board members said raised pedestrian safety concerns.
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April 19th, 2017 @ 6am
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER CHANGES DETAILED
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FAIR HAVEN: Acme center owner details plan to keep it as a "neighborhood shopping center" but with more accessible parking.
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March 24th, 2017 @ 7am
RED BANK: Homebuilding giant Hovnanian Enterprises very nearly posted a net profit in its most recent quarter.
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March 8th, 2017 @ 10am
RED BANK: OPEN-AIR STAIR MAY BE ENCLOSED
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RED BANK: Changes to a distinctive downtown building with an open-air staircase will go before the zoning board this week.
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January 17th, 2017 @ 5am
RED BANK: BASIE SHINES ON GLOBAL STAGE
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RED BANK: Ticket sales soared 76 percent at the Count Basie in 2016, making it the top-grossing theater in New Jersey and 24th globally, Pollstar reports.
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January 9th, 2017 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: ACME CENTER TO GET MAKEOVER
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FAIR HAVEN: As another tenant departs, the new owners of the Acme shopping center file renovation plans amid buzz about store turnover.
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December 22nd, 2016 @ 3pm
RED BANK: RAYRAP CLEARS FIRST HURDLE
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RED BANK: A year after defeat, developer Ray Rapcavage wins key approval for townhouse-and-garden plan at the Five Corners on the edge of downtown.
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December 16th, 2016 @ 6am
RED BANK: LATEST RAYRAP PLAN IN SPOTLIGHT
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RED BANK: A year after being stopped cold, RayRap returns to the zoning board this week with a plan for townhouses on the edge of downtown.
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December 13th, 2016 @ 7am
RED BANK: Homebuilder Hovnanian reports a smaller loss after a 'challenging' year.
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December 8th, 2016 @ 10am
RED BANK: Like another developer thwarted by the zoning board, RayRap wants its property designated as "in need of rehabilitation."
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September 19th, 2016 @ 10am
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RBG CUB SIGHTING
A Partyline contributor positioned on the dais at Thursday's meeting of the Zoning Board of Adjustment captured redbankgreen reporter intern ...
DOWNPOUR STRAINS DRAIN
Partyline captures video of a flooded intersection during Tuesday's afternoon thunderstorm.
STILL ‘OPEN’ SPACE
Next to Fins and Feathers, very surprised to see an overgrown parking lot that still sits there…overgrown and with blacktop. (Photo and te ...
DARK COMEDY BY JERSEY DIRECTOR OPENS FILM FEST
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off with "In Memoriam," a dark comedy about an actor with six months to live.
Indie Street Film Festival Kicks Off
Indie Street Film Festival kicks off.
KUDOS FOR RBCS FINANCE WHIZZES
Monmouth County Board of Commissioners and Borough Council honor Red Bank Charter School students who took second place in a national financ ...
MARINE PARK HOT DOGS
Red Bank's newly remade Marine Park also has a new lunch option, a newly licensed hot dog cart.
MATCHA CLOSE UP
Partyline captures a photographer working for Aura Coffee Roaster angles for the perfect shot of two iced matcha lattes on Broad Street Mond ...
SOUTH STREET AUTHOR TO READ AT LIBRARY SATURDAY
South Street resident Scott Robertson will read selections from his book, Contents of a Curious Mind, Saturday, Aug. 8, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 ...
EARTH SPIRIT FOUNDER DIES
Jocelyn Ruth Midose, longtime owner of Earth Spirit New Age Center has died.
A PERFECT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
The annual National Night Out event organized by the Red Bank Police Department drew hundreds to frolic amid the green grass and cotton cand ...
Blackhawk Helicopter Arrives for National Night Out
The Blackhawk helicopter has arrived. Everyone’s favorite part of each National Night Out hosted by the Red Bank Police Department jus ...
PARKING METER MOMENT
Patty Bishop of Verona was halfway through her haircut at Fox & Jane when she realized she needed to feed the parking meter. After she p ...
JOIN US AT JJ’S – PLEASE!
A doe-eyed sect of sentient boba teas sweetly beseeches us to join their adorable cult outside of JJ Delicacies this sticky August Sunday!
NEIGHBORS GATHER AT TINO’S
Chris Havens of River Street gathered group of Red Bankers for dinner on Thursday night. The gathering was in the back patio of Tino’s Mex ...
TREE BRANCH VS CAR
A tree branch fell on a parked car on Chestnut Street near Pearl Street Sunday. Submitted by Brian Donohue
APOSTROPHE CATASTROPHE
As a curmudgeonly curator of terrible punctuation on public signs, I’ve seen and shaken my head at a lot of gratuitous quotation marks ...
DANE FOR DEMOCRACY
redbankgreen Partyline captures a great dane who, all signs indicate, has had enough.
SUNFLOWER GAUNTLET
On the Partyline: a sunflower guantlet on River Street.
VIGIL FOR 68 DEAD
About 100 people attended a Saturday vigil at Johnny Jazz Park in Red Bank as part of a nationwide series of events to mourn the lives of pe ...