SHREWSBURY: AILING OWL GETTING CARE
A young owl found cowering against a storefront in the Grove at Shrewsbury was headed to an animal hospital for treatment Friday morning.
SHREWSBURY: TAPAS BAR HOSTS FUNDRAISER
Shrewsbury has a new tapas bar restaurant, and it’s kicking things off with a fundraiser for Red Bank’s JBJ Soul Kitchen.
SHREWSBURY: TAPAS AND WINE BAR COMING
Shrewsbury is set to get a tapas and wine bar in coming months, redbankgreen has confirmed.
Terra Momo Restaurant Group, which operates several restaurants in and around Princeton, has leased 2,000 square feet in a new Metrovation-owned building on Broad Street, opposite the Grove shopping center, principal Chris Cole confirmed Wednesday.
SHREWSBURY: SWIMWEAR, PIZZA & MORE
Lilikoi set up shop recently in a Broad Street storefront in the Franklin Commons strip mall. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
This edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn takes a spin around Shrewsbury and finds — no surprise — that this retail-centric borough has no shortage of stores coming and going.
SHREWSBURY: METROVATION BUSY HERE, TOO
Country Curtains opened last month after relocating to a new space across Broad Street from its former home in the Grove shopping center. (Photo by Trish Russoniello. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
There’s lots of Retail Churn activity to report concerning three Metrovation-owned properties in Shrewsbury.
The development firm, which built Red Bank’s 91-residence West Side Lofts apartment-and-stores project and is about to transform the long-vacant Anderson Building at the borough train station into a second Sickles Market store and office building — as reported Thursday by redbankgreen — has also been involved in a flurry of leasing deals one town over.
RED BANK: DUXIANA DEPARTS; SUSHI COMING
The Duxiana store has vacated the building dubbed the Temple of Fashion, built in 1894. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
In this edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn: a flurry of activity to report from Broad Street in Red Bank, including:
• a new vacancy in a historic building in the center of the downtown
• the recent opening of Red Bank Family Pharmacy
• plans for a new sushi restaurant
Plus, there’s interesting news about a new restaurant coming to the Grove in Shrewsbury.
CHURN: SHREWSBURY TO GET FAST GREEK EATS
Greek Eats has signed to take the corner space, at right above, at the three-store 89 Newman Springs Road, now under construction. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
For about five years, Red Bank restaurateur George Lyristis has been developing an idea for a casual fast-food restaurant based on his ethnic heritage, he tells redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn.
Well, the time has come to make the concept real, he says. With the sale of their Zoe Bistro in Little Silver, effective Wednesday, Lyristis and his brothers Charlie and Taso are planning to open a new place called Greek Eats in Shrewsbury in coming months.
CHURN: RED GOES DARK, SOUTH MOON RISES
The first-floor restaurant at red, now closed for remodeling, will reopen under a new name in coming months. The upstairs nightclub remains open on Friday and Saturday nights. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Calling his Red Bank restaurant “red” 12 years ago turned out not to be the smartest choice in the era of the search engine, Dan Lynch admits with a laugh.
But that’s not why he shut down the Broad Street restaurant for a first-floor makeover and rebranding last Saturday, he tells redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn.
CHURN: ROOK, GOTHAM, PLATYPUS, NO APPLE
Kate Henderson brews one of the first cups at Rook Coffee Roasters Monday morning. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Closing out a busy year, redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn delivers news of a coffee place and an art-filled nightspot, both in downtown Red Bank, and some churnings in the groves of Shrewsbury, where the perennial rumor of an Apple Computer store is again in the air.
RED BANK: LOFTS LAND WEST ELM AS TENANT
The furniture retailer will occupy the ground-floor corner at West Front Street and Bridge Avenue, as shown in this rendering. (Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank’s West Side Lofts project now under construction has landed upscale furniture retailer West Elm as an anchor tenant.
The pending arrival of the store, slated for next August, was at the center of a handful of changes to the massive project the borough zoning board approved Thursday night.
RED BANK: CLOSING IN ON WEST SIDE LOFTS
A fifth-floor view of the “mews” between two buildings at the West Side Lofts, looking toward the Two River Theater. Below, developer Chris Cole. (Photos by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
After years on the drawing board, one of the biggest – and architecturally boldest – residential projects ever conceived for Red Bank is nearing completion.
While area merchants and restaurateurs anxiously await their arrival, West Side Lofts developer Chris Cole said he’s planning on having the first tenants move in as early as February.
Designed by David Baker Architects in San Francisco, the project features 92 rental units in a Rubik’s-cube-like amalgam of bold color and jutting facades that dominates the corner of West Front Street and Bridge Avenue, in what’s sometimes referred to as the Arts and Antiques District of town.
But “it’s not trying to make a statement,” Cole told redbankgreen on a recent tour. “It’s more trying to embrace the arty side of town.”
CHURN: BLING, BUBBLE TEA AND BUSTED DEALS
After just a year and a half, Shore Scoop closes, giving way soon to Chill Bubble Tea at 15 White Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
There’s lots to report here in the 200th installment of Retail Churn, as the comings and goings of storefront businesses and restaurants on the greater Red Bank Green is as lively as we’ve seen yet.
Take it past the jump for a thumbnail tour.
RED BANK: NIRVANA MOVING TO GROVE
Red Bank clothing store Nirvana is heading south, relocating to the space formerly occupied by McLoone’s Running Store in the Grove at Shrewsbury. A sign at the Grove says the new store will open in September. Repeated attempts to reach Nirvana owner Sunil Amatya about his plans for the 4,000-square-foot White Street building, which he owns, were unsuccessful. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
PIEHOLE: BRINGING WARMTH TO A COLD WEEK
Good Karma Cafe’s Gail Doherty transports PieHole readers to the south of France. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge)
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- Hot Chocolate receipts for young and old from d’jeet?, David Burke’s Fromagerie and Jamian’s Food and Drink.
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PIEHOLE: SOPPRESSATA, CHOWDER & BRISKET
PieHole ate (just) west of the tracks in Red Bank recently, tasting some tacos and chowder.
redbankgreen’s PieHole is all about local food and drink. If you haven’t liked us on Facebook yet or followed us on Twitter, you may have missed some of these recent stories . . .
- We stopped in to chat about chowder with Glenn Kovacs at the Chowda House in Red Bank.
- PieHole sat down with Casey Pesce, chef/owner of d’jeet? at the Grove in Shrewsbury to get some ideas and inspiration for winter cooking.
- We sampled some tacos and tortas at La Esquina in Red Bank.
- We found the Cinnamon Snail a sweet parking spot in downtown Red Bank for Sundays in December, only to see those plans quickly get squashed.
- Had a nice chat with Rumson’s Gingerbread House Lady.
- Found our readers a really good deal on a crockpot meal.
- What’s for lunch? How about a nice soppressata from Brooklyn by way of Prospect Ave in Red Bank?
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SHREWSBURY: D’JEET HARVESTS THE GROVE
Chef/owner of d’jeet Casey Pesce harvesting greens at the Grove. (Photo by Jim Willis. Click to enlarge)
By JIM WILLIS
When Casey Pesce, chef/owner of d’jeet in the Grove was studying in Italy, he learned about the harmony that eating local brings to food.
“The air you breathe, the water you drink – there’s a harmony with the local food,” he says. “If you drink a Chianti in Chianti, you’re getting everything– you’re breathing the air that the grapes were breathing, the climate. You have a harmony.”
Pesce wants his customers to experience that same harmony when they dine on the kale and herbs that he serves from the gardens at the Grove.