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Category Archives: Retailing

RED BANK: PUBLIC INPUT ON PARKING SOUGHT
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RED BANK: A public-input session on downtown parking issues has been scheduled as part of a study of parking needs now underway.
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August 21st, 2018 @ 1pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: DOWNTOWN ‘VISION’ GAINS FOCUS
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RED BANK: An effort to redefine RiverCenter's vision for the downtown continued with new survey results on perceptions of residents and visitors Monday.
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August 14th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: A SECOND CAREER IN OLD JEANS
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RED BANK: There's money in 'crotch rot.' In this edition of Retail Churn, a woman finds a new career in repairing old jeans customers just can't part with.
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August 10th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: MONMOUTH MUSIC TO CLOSE
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RED BANK: After 31 years in business, Monmouth Music is closing, unable to compete with online sales, and will reopen as a STEM-based music academy.
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August 8th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: Two DIY rustic-sign workshops open downtown.
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August 8th, 2018 @ 8am
SHREWSBURY: SUPERMARKET MARKETS JOBS
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SHREWSBURY: What's Going On Here? A new supermarket under construction needs to fill some 300 jobs by the end of the year.
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August 7th, 2018 @ 10am
RED BANK: ‘CAKE BOSS’ BAKERY CLOSES
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RED BANK: Less than five years after it opened with great fanfare, 'Cake Boss' Buddy Valastro's bakery here has closed and cleared out.
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August 1st, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: ANTIQUES BUILDING SOLD
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RED BANK: The borough's once-burgeoning antiques district, which took a big hit six years ago, is about to shrink some more.
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July 20th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: PUPPY MILL LAW WITHDRAWN
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RED BANK: After seven months of controversy, a proposed ban on retail sales of "puppy mill" pets was withdrawn Wednesday night.
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July 19th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: PLANNING AND ZONING AGENDAS
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RED BANK: Proposed new building at West Front Street and Maple Avenue, Sickles Market Provisions on planning and zoning agendas this week.
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July 16th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: SAXUM SPREE CONTINUES
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RED BANK: Real estate investment firm Saxum continues its recent buying spree with acquisition of Urban Outfitters building.
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July 13th, 2018 @ 12am
RED BANK: STATION CRAVES DUNKINS
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RED BANK: Five years after planners shot down a proposed 7-Eleven at the Newman Springs Road Shell station, the station owner is proposing to build a Dunkin' Donuts.
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July 12th, 2018 @ 12am
RED BANK CHURN: VEGAN TAKEOUT OPENS
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, vegan mecca opens a new takeout shop, a framing business consolidates, and a party-services business holds a moving sale.
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July 11th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: TWO EATERIES AND A ‘WILD EYE’
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RED BANK: After an overhaul, a long-closed restaurant reopens; a new one announces its debut plan; and an intriguing new retail spot opens its doors.
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June 29th, 2018 @ 9am
RED BANK: PUPPY MILL BILL RETURNS… MAYBE
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RED BANK: A controversial anti-puppy-mill proposal is on the council agenda for Wednesday night, though a vote is uncertain.
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June 25th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: RIVERCENTER REBOOT BEGINS
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RED BANK: RiverCenter kicks off drive to new 'vision' and strategic plan with a session that attracts about 70 merchants and others.
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June 19th, 2018 @ 8am
RED BANK: RETHINKING RIVERCENTER’S JOB
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RED BANK: Led by a frustrated business owner, RiverCenter embarks on an effort next week to redefine its job, and is seeking public input.
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June 13th, 2018 @ 2pm
RED BANK: MIXED-USE BUILDING WINS OK
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RED BANK: A mixed-use building would replace a house on Shrewsbury Avenue under a development plan OK'd by the planning board.
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June 11th, 2018 @ 6am
RED BANK: SIGNS OF CHURN DOWNTOWN
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RED BANK: In this edition of Retail Churn, two DIY rustic-sign shops plan opening. Plus news on an expansion by Trap Door Escape Room, a move by the artisan's collective, and more.
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June 8th, 2018 @ 12pm
RED BANK: HABCORE EXPANSION APPROVED
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RED BANK: HABcore plan for four new independent living apartments behind River Street two-family approved by zoning board.
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June 8th, 2018 @ 7am
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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 ...