Khalid Channa at Healthy Habits on Monday. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
The paper came off the windows and a six-year vacancy in downtown Red Bank ended with the opening of the Kahalid Channa’s long-awaited Healthy Habits Natural Foods store Monday.
Channa has been here before.
On a stroll through downtown Red Bank Thursday, redbankgreen found an unusual amount of renovation work underway.
Some of it, like the conversion of the former Ashes Cigar Bar at 33 Broad Street to a Char Steakhouse, above, has been proceeding for months. But other sites that have long appeared dormant now seem to have stirred back to life.
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The chic pre-rusted sign of Chic Optique still hangs on the storefront three years after the eyewear shop departed. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Is the brown paper about to come down off the windows at 65 Broad Street in Red Bank?
The former home to pricey eyewear purveyor Chic Optique has been vacant for more than three years, and actually, the paper’s falling all by itself, without any human intervention.
But building owner Bob Chen tells redbankgreen he’s finally got a new tenant a health food store he can’t recall the name of.
Chen’s been down this road before. Still warm in the files at the borough hall are aborted plans for a Thai restaurant at that location.