RED BANK: EXPERT TESTIFIES ON TRAFFIC IMPACT
A proposed development calling for 45 apartments Monmouth Street in Red Bank would have an “unnoticeable effect” on traffic, a consultant told the zoning board Thursday night.
RED BANK: APARTMENTS ON AGENDA, AGAIN
After three years of review and changes, a proposal for 45 new apartments on Monmouth Street in Red Bank may get an up-or-down vote by the zoning board Thursday night.
RED BANK: HOUSING GRANTS AVAILABLE
Press release from the Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation
The Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation offers substantial grants to qualified first-time homebuyers, as well as to homeowners and renters seeking to improve their dwellings.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN INCHES AHEAD
The house at the northwest corner of Oakland and Pearl Streets would be refurbished for rental as an affordable unit, if approved. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The developer of a proposed 45-apartment project in Red Bank would satisfy part of his affordable housing obligation by restoring a house previously targeted for demolition, representatives told the zoning board Thursday night.
It’s the latest change to a plan that’s been inching its way through the review process for nearly three years.
RED BANK: DEVELOPMENT REVIEW TO RESUME
An elevation showing the Monmouth Street side of Michael Salerno’s proposed mixed-used project, looking west. (Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank development first proposed in late 2019 is scheduled to return to the zoning board Thursday night.
Also on the agenda: an appeal by the Dublin House Pub. Read More
RED BANK: FIFTY APARTMENTS PROPOSED
A depiction of the proposed development, with Mechanic Street on the left and Globe Court on the right. (Rendering by GRO Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The developer of one of Red Bank’s newest apartment buildings hopes to create a larger one just across the street, according to a recent filing with the borough.
RED BANK: LUNCH BREAK BREAKS GROUND
Lunch Break Executive Director Gwen Love, above, welcomed more than 100 guests as the Red Bank social services nonprofit kicked off a $12 million expansion of its Red Bank home Thursday.
RED BANK: CONVERSION TO OFFICE OK’D
A plan to expand and convert a Red Bank house to professional use obtained unanimous approval from the zoning board Thursday night.
RED BANK: OFFICE CONVERSION ON AGENDA
A plan to convert a home to office use is slated to be reviewed by the Red Bank zoning board Thursday night. Read More
RED BANK: SAXUM CHANGES APPROVED
Architect Adrian Melji with a rendering of the revised project’s Bodman Place side looking northwest from Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Filling in a horseshoe void, Saxum Real Estate won planning board approval Monday night for changes to a massive apartment project in Red Bank.
RED BANK: SAXUM SEEKS MORE BEDROOMS
Saxum’s project would be built on the vacant former Visiting Nurse Association headquarter site at 176 Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Two years after obtaining approval for a massive residential real estate project in Red Bank, Saxum Real Estate is heading back to the borough planning board in search of a booster.
RED BANK: MASTER PLAN INPUT SOUGHT
The borough’s Master Plan consultant has created a website for public input. (Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Love it? Want to change it?
Red Bank residents and visitors can now weigh in on the borough’s Master Plan update-in-progress.
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ PLANS MASSIVE PROJECT
Denholtz’s plan would cover several NJ Transit parking lots, as well as company-owned sites. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Denholtz Properties is negotiating to create a massive new development at the Red Bank train station, redbankgreen has learned.
The company’s plan is dependent on the borough designating a swath of sites around the station as redevelopment area, CEO Steve Denholtz said in an interview this week.
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ TO BUY MAYO PROPERTY
Mayo Auto Service owner Pete Soviero outside his Monmouth Street shop last week. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The Denholtz Properties juggernaut continues, with the Red Bank real estate development company about to acquire another key block of sites in town.
Mayo Auto Service owner Pete Soviero has agreed to sell the Monmouth Street property alongside the train station that’s been home to his business for the past 18 years, he confirmed to redbankgreen last week.
But the shop is “not going anywhere” for several years, he said.
RED BANK: ZONING BOARD REJECTS PRC PLAN
The latest proposal by PRC called for additions at 141 West Front Street to top out at six stories, as shown at left. The original nine-story plan is shown at right. (Renderings by William Feinberg. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
After two years and multiple rounds of scaling back, the air space above Pazzo MMX restaurant in downtown Red Bank won’t be filled with new apartments after all.
RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN
The latest plan calls for additions at 141 West Front Street to top out at six stories. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
EDITOR’ NOTE: This is a repost of an article from January 18. The January 20 zoning board hearing on this plan was cancelled and is now scheduled for Thursday, March 3.
By JOHN T. WARD
More than two years after it was first proposed, a massive addition to an existing building in downtown Red Bank keeps getting less massive.
With the third round of revisions made in the hope of satisfying the zoning board this week, PRC Group has reduced its ask to 58 residential units, down from the original 150, and from 99 last summer.
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW RESUMES
An elevation showing the Monmouth Street side of the proposed mixed-used project, looking eastward. (Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Stalled for more than two years, hearings on a proposal for four stories of new apartments and shops on Monmouth Street resumed in Red Bank Thursday night.
Among early subjects of concern were plans to raze two homes for parking, and the impacts on adjoining properties.
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW TO RESUME
An elevation showing the Monmouth Street side of the proposed mixed-used project. (Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
More than two years after the developer hit the pause button, the Red Bank zoning board’s review of a plan for apartments on Monmouth Street is slated to resume next week.
The proposal is listed at the end of a packed agenda that includes a clinic expansion, a new medical office and requests for commercial signage.
RED BANK: HOME’S HISTORIC VALUE DISPUTED
Downtown Investors plans to demolish the house at 26 Wallace Street to create a parking lot. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Historic-value claims about a century house targeted for demolition in downtown Red Bank are “in error,” a developer’s land-use expert told the planning board Monday night.
Members of the Historic Preservation Commission were itching to differ.
RED BANK: BUILDING WOULD FOLLOW NEW LOT
A rendering of the office building Downtown Investors wants to erect at 21 Linden Place. (Image by Stephen J. Gassert Design. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank developer hopes to expand its holdings by erecting a new office building downtown.
But first, Downtown Investors says it needs planning board approval to demolish a house estimated to be 132 years old in order to create parking.
FAIR HAVEN: FIRST-EVER APARTMENTS OKAYED
A rendering of the proposed development, as viewed from River Road and Cedar Avenue. (M&M Realty Partners. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
More than a century into its existence, Fair Haven is on track to get its first-ever apartment project following planning board approval Tuesday night.
The milestone went unmentioned, however, as the board spent three-plus hours reviewing plans for the multiuse development of stores and housing on a former gas station site.
RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN
The latest plan calls for additions at 141 West Front Street to top out at six stories. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
UPDATE: The January 20 zoning board hearing on this plan was cancelled. The board next meets on March 3.
By JOHN T. WARD
More than two years after it was first proposed, a massive addition to an existing building in downtown Red Bank keeps getting less massive.
With the third round of revisions made in the hope of satisfying the zoning board this week, PRC Group has reduced its ask to 58 residential units, down from the original 150, and from 99 last summer.
RED BANK: YASSIN EVICTED
Hazim Yassin at a council meeting in 2019. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
See UPDATE below
By JOHN T. WARD
With just days left on his term, former Red Bank councilman Hazim Yassin was ordered evicted from his apartment last month, court records show.
The action came less than two months after Yassin agreed to pay his landlord more than $32,000 in overdue rent.
RED BANK: FIRE DAMAGES TWO-FAMILY HOUSE
A view of the blaze from the backyard of a neighboring property. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Fire tore through the second floor of a Red Bank two-family home early Monday afternoon, displacing its occupants two days after Christmas.