RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER TO REOPEN AT LAST
After a four-year closure, Red Bank’s Senior Center will formally reopen next week, the borough announced Tuesday.
RED BANK: URBAN OUTFITTERS BUILDING SOLD
One of Red Bank’s landmark commercial buildings has a new owner, redbankgreen has learned.
Two other downtown buildings have also changed hands recently.
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER LOBBY DEDICATED
Tom Hintelmann addresses attendees at the event in his late father’s honor. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
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By JOHN T. WARD
The lobby at Red Bank’s long-closed Senior Center now has a name, in honor of the late Thomas E. Hintelmann, the borough’s longest-serving council member.
Several dozen attendees crowded into the foyer of the Shrewsbury Avenue facility Tuesday evening to memorialize Hintelmann, who served on the borough council from 1975 through 2004.
RED BANK: EVENT SLATED AT SENIOR CENTER
Repair work continued at the Shrewsbury Avenue facility last month. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank officials have scheduled a dedication ceremony this week at the borough’s long-closed Senior Center.
But not, it turns out, to reopen the facility, which still isn’t quite ready for prime time, according to the interim borough Administrator Darren McConnell.
RED BANK: SENIOR CENTER WORK DELAYED
Red Bank residents begin their fifth year without access to the borough’s Senior Center this month.
What’s up with the repairs to the long-closed facility?
RED BANK: PIZZERIA PLAN GOES COLD
Looks like Red Bank won’t be getting an Artichoke Basille’s Pizza restaurant after all.
RED BANK: BANK DOWNSIZING AT CORNER
A sign recently installed outside one of Red Bank’s most prominent business addresses says there’s space “for lease” in the building, now home to a single tenant: Wells Fargo Bank.
RED BANK: HOSPITAL LOT GETS GREENERY
Some readers have noticed earthmoving activity at the corner of Spring and East Front streets in Red Bank lately and wondered: What’s Going On Here?
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RED BANK: BROAD STREET ‘VAULT’ SOLD
After a long-overdue sprucing-up and revival as office space, a prominent building in downtown Red Bank changed hands late last month, redbankgreen has learned.
RED BANK: STATION RAZED FOR APARTMENTS
A onetime gas station-turned-gym in downtown Red Bank was razed Tuesday.
RED BANK: BUILDING VALUE DOUBLES. HOW?
The building at 14-16 Broad Street doubled in value in just two years. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Talk about rapid inflation: a downtown Red Bank commercial building doubled in value over the last two years, according to a recent sale.
What’s Going On Here?
RED BANK: YOUR CAPTION HERE…
What’s Going On Here at East Front and High streets in Red Bank?
Read on for the answer… or make up your own photo caption.Â
RED BANK: ROMCOM FILMING IN PARK
Film-production trucks lined West Front Street along Riverside Gardens Park in Red Bank Monday morning.
RED BANK: OFFICES, EMPTY LOT GET SPRUCING
Something’s up – finally – at an eyesore lot on Drs. James Parker Boulevard in Red Bank. And the large office building next door is getting some attention, too.
RED BANK: LONG-IN-THE-TOOTH SIGN UPSIZED
For years a landmark used by locals giving travel directions, a flat, tooth-shaped dentist’s sign in Red Bank popped into 3D this week.
RED BANK: CAR UNFENCED
Only the posts remained after a chainlink fence that had barricaded a car in Red Bank was removed late last week.
What’s Going On Here? Here’s the latest on the dispute in which an art gallery owner had his car boxed in by a fence last week.
RED BANK: PANDEMIC-IDLED PUB SOLD
Closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Walt Street Pub in Red Bank has new owners.
Or, at least, the building does.
What’s Going On Here? Read on…
RED BANK: RAIL PROJECT NEARS COMPLETION
A view of the Rail project from Chestnut Street, with the existing office building at right and the new residential portion at left. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By CHRIS ERN
For nearly four years, it’s been slowly emerging from the ground alongside the Red Bank train station. Now, most of the block bounded by Bridge Avenue, Chestnut and Oakland streets is a teeming site of construction activity.
So What’s Going On Here? Here’s the latest.
RED BANK: TEMPERS BOIL OVER WATER JOB
Neighbors John Shepherd, left, and Charlie Oliver, on the grassy island between East and West Lake roads. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The temporary takeover of a block-long island of grass and trees that spans the Red Bank-Little Silver border has neighbors furious.
Red Bank officials said they had no advance notice of the New Jersey American Water Company project, and only learned last week, months into the project, that it had camped out on borough property.
RED BANK: CHANGE OF PLANS FOR CORNER
The empty lot, located next door to the public library, slopes down to the Navesink River. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Months after long-vacant buildings next door to the Red Bank Public Library were demolished, not much progress appears to have occurred on a development plan for the site.
What’s Going On Here? Read on for the latest.
RED BANK: NEW TOOTH SIGN OK’D
The tooth-shaped sign is used as a reference by locals when giving out driving directions. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
In less than half the time recommended for a good brushing, Red Bank’s Historic Preservation Commission OK’d the replacement of a dentist’s tooth-shaped sign Wednesday night.
RED BANK: BIG DOORS, BIG TOOTH ON AGENDA
26Â West on the Navesink, above, and the nameless restaurant planned for 3-5 Broad Street, below, hope to install garage-style openings. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Two downtown Red Bank restaurants will seek permission to install garage-style front doors when the Historic Preservation Commission meets Wednesday night.
Also on the unusually busy agenda for the advisory body:Â a dentist needs a tooth pulled.
FAIR HAVEN: FOREFRONT NEARS PROJECT END
Yet another century-old building in Fair Haven’s historic downtown is up on blocks.
What’s Going On Here? Read on.
RED BANK: DREAMING BIG ABOUT RIVERVIEW
A video created by a Philadelphia architectural firm shows a vastly expanded Riverview Medical Center campus. (Video by BKT Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Over more than a dozen years of amassing Red Bank real estate, officials at Riverview Medical Center have been silent on an obvious question: what do they plan to do with their growing land bank?
They’re still not saying. But someone went to the expense of hiring an architecture and urban planning firm to come up with blue-sky concept plans for Riverview, redbankgreen has learned. And he just made a killing selling the hospital some real estate.
RED BANK: RIVERVIEW DEAL YIELDS WINDFALL
The prices of vacant lots quadrupled in less than four years when they were sold to Riverview in late December. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The latest addition to Riverview Medical Center’s Red Bank real estate holdings yielded a windfall gain for the seller, redbankgreen has learned.
Why the hospital paid a whopping price for the site remains unanswered.