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RED BANK: NEW APARTMENTS FILL IN A FLASH
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A new apartment building at Allen Place and Riverside Avenue opens and fills quick. One bedrooms rent for $3,150. Two beds? $3,700. (click to read)
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October 10th, 2024 @ 2pm
Remember: Nothing makes a Red Bank friend happier than to hear "I saw you on Red Bank Green!"
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RED BANK: BANK WITHDRAWING FROM TOWN
RED BANK: Wells Fargo is shutting down its Broad Street operations, vacating one of the town's most visible commercial properties. (Click.)
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May 21st, 2024 @ 11am
RED BANK: BOARD OKS NEW HEIGHT LIMITS
RED BANK: At a quick session, planning board signs off on changes to building heights and fees paid by developers in lieu of planting trees.
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October 3rd, 2023 @ 2pm
RED BANK: THRIVE PLAN GETS BOARD OK
RED BANK: Zoning board OKs 32 apartments for neuro-diverse adults, which advocates said will serve as a model for desperately needed housing.
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September 8th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: THRIVE PARKING PLAN QUESTIONED
RED BANK: Proposed apartments adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities get some pushback over parking at busy corner.
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August 18th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: SPECIAL-NEEDS HOUSING PLANNED
RED BANK: Plan for 32 neuro-inclusive units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities goes before zoning board Thursday.
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August 16th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: NOW GOING UP ON SHREWSBURY…
RED BANK: Black construction fencing surrounds a narrow lot Shrewsbury Avenue. What's Going On Here? redbankgreen sneaks a peak.
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July 25th, 2023 @ 12pm
RED BANK: URBAN OUTFITTERS BUILDING SOLD
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RED BANK: One of downtown's oldest and most prominent landmarks, home to an Urban Outfitters store, has new owners.
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May 12th, 2023 @ 7am
RED BANK: INDOOR CANNABIS FARM APPROVED
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RED BANK: Planning board overcomes misgivings about all-cash operation, electrified security fence, and approves cannabis growing facility.
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December 6th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BANK DOWNSIZING AT CORNER
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RED BANK: "For Lease," says sign outside giant Wells Fargo office and bank on Broad Street. What's Going On Here?
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December 1st, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: BROAD STREET ‘VAULT’ SOLD
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RED BANK: After years of vacancy followed by full rehabilitation, 108-year-old bank building downtown changes hands.
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November 10th, 2022 @ 10am
RED BANK: SAXUM CHANGES APPROVED
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RED BANK: Saxum wins approval for changes to its massive, not-yet-built housing project on the former VNA headquarters site.
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April 5th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: SAXUM SEEKS MORE BEDROOMS
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RED BANK: Two years after winning approval to build 210 units, Saxum wants to increase the bedroom count while reducing density.
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April 1st, 2022 @ 11am
RED BANK: ZONING BOARD REJECTS PRC PLAN
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RED BANK: After two years of hearings and revisions by PRC, zoning board rejects plan for 58 apartments above Pazzo restaurant on West Front Street.
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March 3rd, 2022 @ 10pm
RED BANK: After January cancellation, PRC returns to zoning board with a shrunken plan for residential units above Pazzo restaurant on West Front Street.
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February 25th, 2022 @ 5am
FAIR HAVEN: FIRST-EVER APARTMENTS OKAYED
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FAIR HAVEN: After hours of discussion about driveway and signage, planning board approves what would be the borough's first-ever multifamily development.
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January 19th, 2022 @ 7am
RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN
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RED BANK: After meeting resistance, PRC returns to zoning board with a shrunken plan for residential units above Pazzo restaurant on West Front Street.
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January 18th, 2022 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: MIXED-USE PLAN SCRUTINIZED
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FAIR HAVEN: Though approval seems preordained, proposed mixed-use building gets three hours of close scrutiny by planning board.
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December 22nd, 2021 @ 7am
FAIR HAVEN: MULTIFAMILY PROJECT ON DECK
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FAIR HAVEN: Borough's first multifamily project in modern times slated to go before planning board. M&M proposal calls for no variances.
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December 20th, 2021 @ 7am
RED BANK: $10K CANNABIS BIZ FEE ON TABLE
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RED BANK: Borough attorney sees red flags in suggested cannabis business licensing fee of $10,000, despite adoption in nearby towns.
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December 8th, 2021 @ 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 ...