RED BANK: MORE STATION UNITS PROPOSED

May 11, 2023

The project would replace three commercial buildings on Bridge Avenue and two houses on Oakland Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

UPDATE: The May 18 zoning board meeting has been cancelled, according to a notice on the borough website.

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposal for 32 new apartments across the street from the Red Bank train station is scheduled to go before the borough zoning board next week.

If approved, the project would add to a development boom around the station.

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May 11, 2023 - 8:30 am |

RED BANK: WEEKLONG DETOUR FOR WATER JOB

Apr 23, 2023

Avoid it if you can: access to a busy Red Bank intersection will be shut down for a week starting early Monday morning.

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April 23, 2023 - 12:08 pm |

RED BANK: DETOURS, FOUR-WAY STOP COMING

Nov 15, 2022

Motorists who travel Spring Street in Red Bank will need to adjust for some temporary changes resulting from road work this week and next.

And there will be a permanent change in place once the work is done: a new four-way stop intersection.

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November 15, 2022 - 7:35 am |

RED BANK: STATION RAZED FOR APARTMENTS

Nov 2, 2022

A onetime gas station-turned-gym in downtown Red Bank was razed Tuesday.

What’s Going On Here?

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November 2, 2022 - 7:25 am |

RED BANK: ROADWORK TO CLOSE PINCKNEY

Oct 23, 2022

Pinckney Road from Broad Street to Branch Avenue in Red Bank is to be closed to through-traffic for repaving this week – weather permitting.

But it’s not clear what the weather will permit.

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October 23, 2022 - 5:49 pm |

RED BANK: SPRING STREET PROJECT ADVANCING

Aug 29, 2022

Parking is prohibited this week on the southern half of Spring Street in Red Bank as “minor concrete work and fire hydrant replacement” is scheduled to begin Monday, acting borough administrator and police Chief Darren McConnell tells redbankgreen.

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August 29, 2022 - 7:10 am |

RED BANK: PAVING TO CLOSE ROAD OVERNIGHT

Jul 25, 2022

One of Red Bank’s main east-west thorughfares is up for repaving this week, with two overnight closings planned, borough police announced Sunday.

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July 25, 2022 - 5:45 am |

RED BANK: BROADWALK SET FOR RETURN

Jul 22, 2022

An employee of Catch 19  setting up tables Friday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

With borough workers and contractors putting finishing touches on an eight-month-long streetscape  project, a handful of restaurants hastily set up for a return of Red Bank’s Broadwalk plaza Friday.

Outside the traffic-free zone, however, none of the parking-space streateries used over the past two summers have returned, following a sixfold increase in fees by the borough council.

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July 22, 2022 - 2:00 pm |

RED BANK: BROADWALK RELAUNCH “ON TRACK”

Jul 21, 2022

Gleaming new retractable security bollards are expected make their debut on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank with the return of Broadwalk Friday.

But will businesses be ready for the late-starting third season of the dining and shopping plaza?

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July 21, 2022 - 11:30 am |

RED BANK: PAVING TO BRING DAYS OF DETOURS

Jul 15, 2022

A crew from Montana Construction adjusting one of the new retractable bollards on Broad Street Friday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Accustomed to detours and dust from an eight-month-long rebuilding of Broad Street, merchants and motorists in Red Bank will face what officials hope will be one last series of shutdowns next week.

Weather permitting, several days of paving and striping should all but finish the streetscape project.

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July 15, 2022 - 2:38 pm |

RED BANK: BROADWALK CURTAILED, FEES UPPED

Jul 15, 2022

Businesses readied for the second year of Broadwalk in May, 2021. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Delayed by months, the third season of Red Bank’s Broadwalk shopping-and-dining plaza may finally get going July 22.

This year’s edition, however, is slated to run only through Labor Day. And new fees for in-street dining will cost restaurateurs twice what they paid over the past two summers, said Bob Zuckerman, executive director of the downtown promotion agency Red Bank RiverCenter.

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July 15, 2022 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: BROADWALK ACTION EXPECTED

Jul 13, 2022

Newly installed retractable bollards will allow for upper Broad Street to be converted quickly to a vehicle-free Broadwalk. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s council is scheduled to hold two meetings Wednesday night, its only sessions in July.

Though not on the agenda for either the workshop or regular meeting, action to enable a third season of Broadwalk is anticipated by the downtown business community.

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July 13, 2022 - 7:45 am |

RED BANK: BROADWALK CONCERNS AIRED

Jun 30, 2022

A view of Broadwalk at lunchtime last October. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank merchants and residents pressed officials with concerns regarding a third season of Broadwalk at a community forum Wednesday night.

With less than a month to go before a disruptive streetscape makeover project wraps up, they called for efforts to address litter, traffic, speeding on residential streets and more.

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June 30, 2022 - 12:15 pm |

RED BANK: BROAD STREET PROJECT NEARS END

Jun 24, 2022

Retractable bollards were installed on Mechanic Street near Broad Street Wednesday. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

See UPDATE below

By JOHN T. WARD

A messy, overdue and over-budget makeover of upper Broad Street in Red Bank is expected to conclude in late July, acting borough Administrator Darren McConnell said Wednesday.

The project, which began last November, marked a milestone with the installation this week of retractable hydraulic bollards that will enable quick closure of the street to vehicular traffic.

Still to be determined is when the Broadwalk dining promenade will return for a third, if abbreviated, season.

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June 24, 2022 - 7:37 am |

RED BANK: SINKHOLE OPENS ON BROAD

May 31, 2022

A sinkhole opened on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank Monday night, caused a parked vehicle to sink about a foot.

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May 31, 2022 - 11:05 am |

RED BANK: BROADWALK PANEL FORMED

May 13, 2022

Navigating sidewalks on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank is a bit of a challenge these days.

What’s the latest on the streetscape project that’s been underway since November in the streets northernmost blocks? Read on.

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May 13, 2022 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: COUNCIL SPARS OVER BROADWALK

Apr 28, 2022

Curb replacement work underway as part of the Broad Street streetscape project last week. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

An ongoing split among Red Bank council Democrats played out as a power struggle Wednesday night over who will steer the reopening of the seasonal Broadwalk dining and shopping plaza.

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April 28, 2022 - 7:49 am |

RED BANK: BROADWALK MAY RETURN IN JULY

Apr 14, 2022

Diners enjoying lunch in the Broadwalk zone in October. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Delayed by street a reconstruction project, Red Bank’s Broadwalk outdoor dining plaza will return this summer, borough officials agreed Wednesday.

The informal consensus of the council was the first indication that the downtown car-free experiment, launched in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, would get a third edition.

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April 14, 2022 - 7:58 am |

RED BANK: COUNCIL OKS MAIN, TIE-IN COSTS

Jan 27, 2022

A Montana Construction crew working on Broad Street earlier this month. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Broad Street in Red Bank will get a new, $1.3 million water main, following council action to expand a $2.7 million sanitary sewer project that has disrupted downtown traffic for the past three months.

And property owners won’t have to pay thousands of dollars to replace their water connections, as some had feared.

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January 27, 2022 - 7:30 am |

RED BANK: LEAK SLOWS BROAD STREET ANEW

Dec 23, 2021

Two days after construction of a new sanitary sewer line in downtown Red Bank was suspended through the Christmas weekend, a work crew was back to repair a water leak Thursday morning.

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December 23, 2021 - 9:15 am |

RED BANK: BROAD STREET WORK PAUSED

Dec 21, 2021

Construction of a new sewer line on Broad Street has been suspended through the Christmas weekend, Red Bank officials announced Monday.

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December 21, 2021 - 7:50 am |

RED BANK: “YOU BROKE IT, YOU FIX IT”

Dec 16, 2021

A Montana Construction crew working on Broad Street earlier this month. (redbankgreen photo. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Property owners in downtown Red Bank pushed back Wednesday night on the notion that they should pay thousands of dollars each to replace their water service lines.

Addressing the borough council on their behalf, Red Bank RiverCenter Executive Director Glenn Carter invoked the adage, “you broke it, you fix it.”

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December 16, 2021 - 7:48 am |

RED BANK: STREET CLOSURES ANNOUNCED

Dec 5, 2021

Much of Red Bank’s central business district will be closed to vehicle traffic Monday to allow for work in connection with the installation of a new sewer line on Broad Street, police announced Sunday.

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December 5, 2021 - 4:20 pm |

RED BANK: LEAKS TO COST PROPERTY OWNERS

Dec 2, 2021

Contractors working on the Broad Street project early Thursday. (redbankgreen photo. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

As many as 100 property owners in downtown Red Bank may be in for a shock: thousands of dollars in costs to replace leaking water-supply lines, officials said Wednesday night.

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December 2, 2021 - 7:40 am |

RED BANK: OVERNIGHT CLOSING PLANNED

Nov 12, 2021

A key intersection in downtown Red Bank will be closed for construction Monday night.

West Front Street at Broad Street will be closed from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m. Tuesday for work related to a sewer line replacement, borough police announced Friday. Detours will be in place.

Motorists who can’t avoid the area should expect delays. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

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November 12, 2021 - 2:58 pm |