RED BANK: SUBDIVISION ON AGENDA
A proposal to subdivide one residential lot into three is the only application on the Red Bank planning board’s agenda Monday night.
RED BANK: SUBDIVISION APPROVED
The owner of two adjoining Red Bank properties won the right to build a third house behind them Monday night.
RED BANK: APARTMENTS WIN BOARD OK
The vacant onetime home of Big Man’s West and the office building at left would be razed to make way for the development, shown in the illustration below. (Photo by John T. Ward. Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A plan for 45 apartments on the Red Bank site of a nightclub once owned by saxophonist Clarence Clemons won borough variances to proceed Thursday night.
Developer Michael Salerno told redbankgreen he’s planning to call the project The Sax, in honor of Bruce Springsteen’s late sideman.
RED BANK: SALERNO PLAN TO GET VOTE?
After three years of revisions and hearings, Michael Salerno’s proposal for 46 apartments in downtown Red Bank appears set for a vote by zoning board Thursday night.
RED BANK: STILL NO VOTE ON SALERNO PLAN
Salerno attorney and former mayor Ed McKenna challenged testimony by a planner for the owner of the nearby Station Place apartments. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A planner who testified against variances for 46 apartments in downtown Red Bank got a tongue-lashing from former mayor Ed McKenna Thursday night.
The planner’s attorney termed McKenna’s aggressive approach a “preposterous rant.”
RED BANK: SUBDIVISION ON AGENDA
SEE UPDATE BELOW
A proposal to subdivide adjoining properties on Shrewsbury Avenue is the sole matter on the Red Bank planning board’s agenda Monday night.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN BACK AGAIN
See UPDATE below
After three years of review and changes, a proposal for 45 new apartments on Monmouth Street in Red Bank is on the zoning board agenda yet again Thursday night.
RED BANK: EXPERT TESTIFIES ON TRAFFIC IMPACT
A proposed development calling for 45 apartments Monmouth Street in Red Bank would have an “unnoticeable effect” on traffic, a consultant told the zoning board Thursday night.
RED BANK: APARTMENTS ON AGENDA, AGAIN
After three years of review and changes, a proposal for 45 new apartments on Monmouth Street in Red Bank may get an up-or-down vote by the zoning board Thursday night.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN INCHES AHEAD
The house at the northwest corner of Oakland and Pearl Streets would be refurbished for rental as an affordable unit, if approved. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The developer of a proposed 45-apartment project in Red Bank would satisfy part of his affordable housing obligation by restoring a house previously targeted for demolition, representatives told the zoning board Thursday night.
It’s the latest change to a plan that’s been inching its way through the review process for nearly three years.
RED BANK: DEVELOPMENT REVIEW TO RESUME
An elevation showing the Monmouth Street side of Michael Salerno’s proposed mixed-used project, looking west. (Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
A Red Bank development first proposed in late 2019 is scheduled to return to the zoning board Thursday night.
Also on the agenda: an appeal by the Dublin House Pub. More →
RED BANK: DENHOLTZ PLANS MASSIVE PROJECT
Denholtz’s plan would cover several NJ Transit parking lots, as well as company-owned sites. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Denholtz Properties is negotiating to create a massive new development at the Red Bank train station, redbankgreen has learned.
The company’s plan is dependent on the borough designating a swath of sites around the station as redevelopment area, CEO Steve Denholtz said in an interview this week.
RED BANK: ZONING BOARD REJECTS PRC PLAN
The latest proposal by PRC called for additions at 141 West Front Street to top out at six stories, as shown at left. The original nine-story plan is shown at right. (Renderings by William Feinberg. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
After two years and multiple rounds of scaling back, the air space above Pazzo MMX restaurant in downtown Red Bank won’t be filled with new apartments after all.
RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN
The latest plan calls for additions at 141 West Front Street to top out at six stories. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
EDITOR’ NOTE: This is a repost of an article from January 18. The January 20 zoning board hearing on this plan was cancelled and is now scheduled for Thursday, March 3.
By JOHN T. WARD
More than two years after it was first proposed, a massive addition to an existing building in downtown Red Bank keeps getting less massive.
With the third round of revisions made in the hope of satisfying the zoning board this week, PRC Group has reduced its ask to 58 residential units, down from the original 150, and from 99 last summer.
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW RESUMES
An elevation showing the Monmouth Street side of the proposed mixed-used project, looking eastward. (Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Stalled for more than two years, hearings on a proposal for four stories of new apartments and shops on Monmouth Street resumed in Red Bank Thursday night.
Among early subjects of concern were plans to raze two homes for parking, and the impacts on adjoining properties.
RED BANK: APARTMENT REVIEW TO RESUME
An elevation showing the Monmouth Street side of the proposed mixed-used project. (Rendering by SOME Architects. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
More than two years after the developer hit the pause button, the Red Bank zoning board’s review of a plan for apartments on Monmouth Street is slated to resume next week.
The proposal is listed at the end of a packed agenda that includes a clinic expansion, a new medical office and requests for commercial signage.
RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN
The latest plan calls for additions at 141 West Front Street to top out at six stories. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
UPDATE: The January 20 zoning board hearing on this plan was cancelled. The board next meets on March 3.
By JOHN T. WARD
More than two years after it was first proposed, a massive addition to an existing building in downtown Red Bank keeps getting less massive.
With the third round of revisions made in the hope of satisfying the zoning board this week, PRC Group has reduced its ask to 58 residential units, down from the original 150, and from 99 last summer.
RED BANK: CORNER CONDOS APPROVED
Red Bank’s zoning board got the renderings it wanted showing proposed development at the corner of West Front Street and Maple Avenue Thursday night.
Among them was a view from Maple Cove on the Navesink River, above; a bird’s-eye perspective at right with a glimpse of the rooftop pool; and a view from the 7-Eleven across West Front Street, below.
RED BANK: PROJECT DRAWS CLOSER TO OK
Environmental Commission Chairwoman Nancy Facey-Blackwood speaking at the hearing as applicant’s attorney Chris Healey looks on. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
For want of a drawing, the Red Bank zoning board stopped just short of approving a plan for 10 condominium units next door to the borough library Thursday night.
When they meet again in two weeks, board members will be set to fast-track the approval, provided a new rendering doesn’t change their minds.
RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN BACK ON AGENDA
A zoning board hearing on 10 apartments proposed for a vacant, riverfront lot next door to the Red Bank Public Library is set to resume Thursday.
RED BANK: MUMFORD YANKS APARTMENT PLAN
Linda Clark addressing Roger Mumford at Thursday’s hearing. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Developer Roger Mumford withdrew his controversial proposal for a 20-unit apartment building on Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank Thursday night.
The move, coming moments before an expected up-or-down vote by the zoning board, was a win for residents who opposed the plan as gentrifying to a low-income area.
RED BANK: PRC RETURNS TO DRAWING BOARD
PRC will amend its proposal for 141 West Front Street, a company attorney told the board in a letter. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
The would-be builder of a massive addition to an existing building in downtown Red Bank will amend the plans to accommodate pushback, its attorney said Thursday.
RED BANK: POP STAR’S POP WINS EXTENSION
The zoning board approved the creation of five basement apartments at Tudor Village in 2016. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Pop star Charlie Puth‘s father obtained an extension from the Red Bank zoning board Thursday night on a five-year-old plan to create a handful of apartments on Broad Street.
It was an encore appearance.
RED BANK: REVISED CORNER PLAN AIRED
The site, at the corner of West Front Street and Maple Avenue, was cleared for construction last October. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Zoning board hearings on a new plan to redevelop property next door to the Red Bank Public Library got underway without conclusion Thursday night.
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.