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Category Archives: Retail Churn

RED BANK: GYM PLANNED FOR CORNER SITE
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, a gym plans to occupy a high-visibility building; movies return to downtown; and an insurance agency sets up shop.
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October 9th, 2020 @ 7am
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: COVID-19 CLAIMS TWO BUSINESSES
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RED BANK: In this 400th edition of Retail Churn, two more businesses fall to the pandemic: the restaurant Via45 and Paint A Tee, a children's event space.
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September 30th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: DOWNTOWN SOLD
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RED BANK: The Downtown restaurant and bar has new owners. Filings indicate no immediate plans for changes to the West Front Street building.
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September 28th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: EX-GYMNAST BRINGS THE JUICE
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RED BANK: A Romanian gymnast-turned-life coach adds energy-drink retailer to her résumé today with the opening of a shop on West Front Street.
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August 19th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: TRATTORIA ENDS 35-YEAR RUN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, the owners of the Front St. Trattoria make a quiet exit after 35 years, and a CBD shop plans to open downtown.
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July 14th, 2020 @ 11am
RED BANK: LATIN-FLAVORED CAFÉ OPENS
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RED BANK: Hit hard by the pandemic a father and two sons finally open their new restaurant, one that includes a "Latin touch" on its menu.
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July 8th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: NEARLY NEW CALLS IT QUITS
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RED BANK: In Retail Churn, Nearly New Shop, started by an former Pan Am stewardess in 1993, joins parade of closings downtown.
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June 29th, 2020 @ 6am
RED BANK: COVID-19 pandemic claims Alfonso's Pastry Shoppe after just 17 months of operation on Broad Street.
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June 18th, 2020 @ 1pm
RED BANK: RETAIL DAMAGE, BUT HOPE, TOO
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RED BANK: As the dust settles, business closings are on the rise downtown, but there are also a few glimmers of optimism.
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June 8th, 2020 @ 11am
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
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
RED BANK: HOMEWARES SHOP MOVES RIGHT IN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a homewares store relocates from Bellworks after one of the downtown's quickest deals in recent memory.
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February 28th, 2020 @ 2pm
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: 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: CHURNING OUT A THIRD VENTURE
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, a pair of accidental restaurateurs now own three eateries within steps of one another downtown.
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January 10th, 2020 @ 8am
RED BANK: SCAVONE TO LEAVE RIVERCENTER
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RED BANK: RiverCenter, the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the downtown district, is losing its executive director of the past six years.
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December 31st, 2019 @ 9am
RED BANK: ROOFTOP DINING PLAN APPROVED
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RED BANK: New owners of prominent downtown address get planning board OK for rooftop dining despite board chairman's objections.
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December 17th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: New owners of former Belmonte space propose rooftop dining and third-floor dining space. Planning board to review Monday night.
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December 16th, 2019 @ 7am
RED BANK: DISCOUNT-HUNTING VIA DRONE
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RED BANK: Mini drone shop opens with aim of promoting downtown shopping. Get the bird's-eye view in this edition of Retail Churn.
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November 22nd, 2019 @ 8am
RED BANK: WATCH YOUR VEGGIES GROW
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RED BANK: Shoppers at the planned Sickles Market Provisions will be able to watch produce growing in a shipping container in the parking lot.
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November 8th, 2019 @ 6am
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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 ...
LITTERBUGS HIT MARINE PARK
Partyline PSA: Please don't leave your trash in our nice new park!
PARKING SUCCESS AT RED ROCK
All these people found parking for the Cliffs at Red Rock!