RED BANK: CONSIGNMENT SHOP APPROVED
After a vacancy of almost two years, the space last occupied by Brownstone Dry Cleaner at Monmouth and Pearl streets in Red Bank is about to get a new tenant, according to paperwork on file at borough hall.
FAIR HAVEN: PRESERVATION GOALS CURBED
What’s Going On Here? once again checks in on the progress of an unusal construction project in Fair Haven, and finds the developer has had to significantly curb its historical preservation goals.
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RED BANK: WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
A concrete block edifice has begun rising on Central Avenue, in the industrial core of Red Bank.
What’s Going On Here? Click ‘read more’ for the answer, and a rendering of what’s coming. (Photo by John T. Ward. Rendering by Richard Arzberger. Click to enlarge.)
FAIR HAVEN: BACK TO THE FOREFRONT
After spending the last five months on rails at the back of a River Road, Fair Haven lot, a 150-year old old house-turned-retail structure was slid into place over a new foundation at the front last week.
What’s Going On Here? Read on.
RED BANK: ‘RAILS’ PROJECT GETS ROLLING
A former warehouse and taxi stand alongside the Red Bank railroad station was torn down last week.
What’s Going On Here? Click the read more for the answer, and some renderings of what’s coming down the rails. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Renderings by Monteforte Architectural Studio. Click to enlarge.)
RED BANK: MARINE PARK RESTROOMS OPEN
Visitors to Marine Park in Red Bank may be relieved to know that the long-awaited new restrooms are open.
But will they be more accessible than those at nearby Riverside Gardens Park? Read on.
RED BANK: WORK HALTED OVER SAFETY ISSUES
Red Bank officials have ordered a work stoppage at Riverwalk Commons, a 24-unit luxury apartment building under construction at 24 Mechanic Street.
RED BANK: APARTMENTS FINALLY UNDERWAY
There’s a big hole in the ground surrounded by a fence on Mechanic Street in Red Bank.
What’s Going on Here? Click ‘read more to find out.
SHREWSBURY: ACTIVITY AT SUNOCO SITE
More than a decade after Duckworth’s Sunoco station in Shrewsbury went out of business, the Broad Street property has been enclosed by fence and site work is underway.
What’s Going on Here? Click ‘read more’ to find out.
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RED BANK: CRAFT BEER MICROBREWERY OK’D
The plan calls for a craft-beer microbrewery in the former ARC thrift shop space at 77 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
For the second time in recent weeks, a craft beer operation has confirmed plans for a microbrewery in downtown Red Bank.
And according to Google Maps, it’s less than 500 feet away from the first.
RED BANK: NEW PHARMACY OPENS
Red Bank’s Shrewsbury Avenue continued its recent makeover trend with the opening of a new pharmacy this week.
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RED BANK: PHARMACY CLEARED TO OPEN
A new retail space in Red Bank that’s to become home to the Shrewsbury Avenue Pharmacy has been approved for occupancy, borough Assistant Construction Official John Drucker told redbankgreen Thursday. Read More
RED BANK: RESTROOMS NEARLY READY TO GO
A new structure suddenly appeared in Red Bank’s Marine Park last week. What’s going on here? Read on.
FAIR HAVEN: MOVE IT ON OVER
An old house-turned-retail building in Fair Haven’s historic business district literally went up on blocks Thursday. What’s Going On Here? Read on.
FAIR HAVEN: FOREFRONT PROJECT BEGINS
A pile of rubble was all that remained Friday of a building at 812-814 River Road in Fair Haven.
What’s going on here?
RED BANK: PHARMACY ALL PHRAMED OUT
After a delay, construction of a building slated to house a pharmacy and four apartments on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank is back on track, according to borough Assistant Construction Official John Drucker.
RED BANK: SPRUCING UP A VICTORIAN
In progress in Red Bank’s historic district: a stately Victorian structure is getting a complete overhaul by a reconstructive plastic surgeon, Dr. Negin Griffith, under a plan approved by the borough planning board in March, 2015.
RED BANK: SHOP PREPPED FOR NEW USE
Work got underway recently on the facade and interior of the former ARC thrift shop at 77 Monmouth Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Whats Going On with the former thrift shop next door to Jamian’s Food and Drink on Monmouth Street in Red Bank? Read More
RED BANK: PHARMACY, APARTMENTS GOING UP
There’s new construction underway on a narrow, vacant lot on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank, where a pharmacist, Ritesh Shah, won approval last year to erect a four-unit apartment building with an independently owned drugstore on the ground floor. An architect’s rendering is at right.
Shah was not immediately available for comment on the estimated completion date of the project, which is next door to Lino’s Mexican Café. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
RED BANK: HIPPIES STOKED FOR THE STASH
A merry band of self-described hippies get ready to reboard their bus, dubbed the Stockpot Kitchen, after a stop in downtown Red Bank Friday.
Traveling America “with the purpose of feeding and supporting everyone, everywhere,” according to their Facebook page, the collective just had to make a stop at Jay and Bob’s Secret Stash, the comic book store on Broad Street, they told redbankgreen. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge)
FAIR HAVEN: OLD BUILDINGS TO BE JOINED
Architect Matt Cronin’s design would link the two River Road buildings shown below with a new glass-filled central section. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
A plan to connect a pair of 150-year-old structures in Fair Haven with a window-filled central addition elicited unanimous praise from the planning board Wednesday night.
ForeFront Incorporated, a web tech firm headquartered in a stately Victorian two doors away, intends to use the conjoined buildings as expansion office space, company principal Michel Berger told the board.
With a patio, yoga space and “mom’s room,” it’s designed to attract millenial coders and developers to his company, where the average employee is 24 years old, Berger said.