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Category Archives: Land Use & Zoning

RED BANK: CORNER BUILDINGS COME DOWN
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RED BANK: Demolition begins on a string of buildings on East Front Street. What's Going On Here? redbankgreen has the answer.
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May 22nd, 2020 @ 6am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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LITTLE SILVER: PAVING JOB STEAMS AHEAD
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LITTLE SILVER: A resurfacing of Branch Avenue means some neighborhoods are cut off from vehicular access for hours at a time.
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May 6th, 2020 @ 6pm
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN VIEW SNEAK PREVIEW
RED BANK: redbankgreen gets a sneak peek of stunning river vistas from nearly finished playground/lookout stand at Bellhaven Natural Area. Video.
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April 23rd, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: PUBLIC PROJECTS ADVANCING
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here with these borough projects? Updates on Bellhaven Natural Area, Eastside Park and parking meter replacement.
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April 7th, 2020 @ 11am
FAIR HAVEN: DUNKIN’ COMMENTS LESS HEATED
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FAIR HAVEN: A year after it sharply divide the town, Dunkin' shop gets its signage and Facebook comments are far less heated.
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April 1st, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: WILL LONG-CLOSED ‘VAULT’ OPEN?
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RED BANK: After a seven-year vacancy, Saxum Real Estate had finally landed a tenant for the building it calls 'the Vault' on Broad Street. And then, COVID-19 hit.
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March 24th, 2020 @ 10am
FAIR HAVEN: FACILITIES PLAN ATTACKED
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FAIR HAVEN: In mayor's absence, Casagrande barraged with complaints over proposed $3.4M purchase of River Road site for new borough hall and police station.
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March 6th, 2020 @ 12pm
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER TAPS KIRKPATRICK
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RED BANK: RiverCenter board names Laura Kirkpatrick to lead the downtown promotion agency where she's worked in marketing and promotion for two years.
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March 6th, 2020 @ 8am
FAIR HAVEN: FACILITIES PLAN AIRING SLATED
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FAIR HAVEN: With just a day's notice, mayor announces open forum on proposed $3.4M purchase of River Road site for new borough hall and police station.
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March 4th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BALLARD & ZIPPRICH TO RUN AGAIN
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RED BANK: Zipprich and Ballard to defend seats on the all-Democrat council in November election. No word yet on Republican candidates.
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March 3rd, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: WORK BEGINS AT RIVERMARK SITE
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RED BANK: What's Going On with the two long-vacant buildings at Maple Avenue and West Front Street, next door to the public library?
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March 2nd, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: SNACK BAR, SCREENS ON AGENDA
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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.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 12pm
FAIR HAVEN: TENANTS HOT OVER TOWN DEAL
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FAIR HAVEN: Business owners and residents push back on council plan to buy River Road site for new borough hall and police station.
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February 25th, 2020 @ 9am
FAIR HAVEN: TOWN IN DEAL FOR OFFICE SITE
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FAIR HAVEN: Borough facilities consolidation plan gets back on track with proposed purchase of River Road building, which would be replaced, says Lucarelli.
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February 21st, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: HOBBYMASTERS CLOSING
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RED BANK: Hobbymasters closing after 40-year run selling electric trains and wide variety of games. So what's next for this primo site?
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February 20th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: BELLHAVEN OIL TANK YANKED
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here? Environmental cleanup underway at Bellhaven Natural Area, which is slated to get a playground and observation deck.
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February 19th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BREEZEWAY TO A ‘RETREAT’
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RED BANK: What's Going On Here at Worthley and Marion streets? We've got the answer, plus a bit of historical neighborhood trivia.
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February 13th, 2020 @ 2pm
RED BANK: BOARD SUED OVER TWO DECISIONS
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RED BANK: Planning board faces two lawsuits, one for denying an extension to Hampton Inn, another for approving Saxum's 210-apartment project on VNA site.
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February 12th, 2020 @ 7am
RED BANK: BRUNCH, AND MORE, IN CHURN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a new breakfast and lunch spot called, um, Brunch, opens. Read about that and other comings and goings downtown.
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February 11th, 2020 @ 9am
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW BEGINS
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RED BANK: Hearing on 59-unit apartment project on Monmouth Street begins with focus on other density variances near the train station.
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February 7th, 2020 @ 12pm
Partyline
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 ...