RED BANK: BOARD OKS NEW HEIGHT LIMITS

Oct 3, 2023

Navesink Riverside Residences and Marina (formerly Riverview Towers), center, and the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, to its right, are in the waterfront zone. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s planning board made quick work of approving two pending ordinances Monday night.

At a meeting that lasted just 13 minutes, the board found proposed changes to maximum building heights, and fees paid by developers in lieu of planting trees, did not conflict with the borough’s Master Plan.

October 3, 2023 - 10:20 am |

RED BANK: THRIVE PLAN GETS BOARD OK

Sep 8, 2023

A rendering of the proposed Thrive Red Bank project, as seen from Shrewsbury Avenue. (Rendering by CPA Architecture. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposed apartment building for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities won approval from the Red Bank zoning board Thursday night.

Advocates called the approval historic, and said it would allow them to create a model for desperately needed housing for neuro-diverse adults.

September 8, 2023 - 8:37 am |

RED BANK: THRIVE PARKING PLAN QUESTIONED

Aug 18, 2023

Seen on a monitor, an architect discusses the design of the proposed Shrewsbury Avenue project. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposed apartment project for adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities would be the first of its kind in New Jersey, which has a critical need for it, sponsors told the Red Bank zoning board Thursday night.

Board members had questions about parking and unit size, but showed no immediate sign of opposition.

August 18, 2023 - 8:00 am |

RED BANK: SPECIAL-NEEDS HOUSING PLANNED

Aug 16, 2023

Rendering shows the Shrewsbury Avenue side of the proposed building. Access to an interior garage would be at the far left. (Rendering by CPA Architecture.Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

When Karen Fluharty moved her special-needs adult son to a neuro-diverse housing complex in Phoenix two years ago, she was both relieved and devastated. There simply was nothing anywhere near her Rumson home that would allow young Ryan to live an independent life with an overlay of needed support, she said.

“I had to make the choice as a parent, to leave my 19-year-old son, my only child, in Arizona,” she said. “I had to make the choice between the right program and being near family. And no parent should have to make that choice.”

On Thursday night, a nonprofit entity Fluharty created will go before the Red Bank zoning board with an alternative.

August 16, 2023 - 8:50 am |

RED BANK: NOW GOING UP ON SHREWSBURY…

Jul 25, 2023

Black construction fencing surrounds a narrow lot Shrewsbury Avenue in Red Bank.

What’s Going On Here? redbankgreen sneaks a peak through a hole in the fence…

July 25, 2023 - 8:30 am |

RED BANK: URBAN OUTFITTERS BUILDING SOLD

May 12, 2023

One of Red Bank’s landmark commercial buildings has a new owner, redbankgreen has learned.

Two other downtown buildings have also changed hands recently.

May 12, 2023 - 7:20 am |

RED BANK: INDOOR CANNABIS FARM APPROVED

Dec 6, 2022

The facility would operate in three buildings now used for warehousing at 15 East Leonard Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank moved closer to scoring a wholesale cannabis growing facility Monday night.

Before granting approval, however, planning board members had to overcome misgivings about an all-cash operation – and an electrified security fence meant to give intruders a “kick in the chest” without killing them.

December 6, 2022 - 7:59 am |

RED BANK: BANK DOWNSIZING AT CORNER

Dec 1, 2022

A sign recently installed outside one of Red Bank’s most prominent business addresses says there’s space “for lease” in the building, now home to a single tenant: Wells Fargo Bank.

What’s Going On Here?

December 1, 2022 - 7:00 am |

RED BANK: BROAD STREET ‘VAULT’ SOLD

Nov 10, 2022

After a long-overdue sprucing-up and revival as office space, a prominent building in downtown Red Bank changed hands late last month, redbankgreen has learned.

November 10, 2022 - 10:45 am |

RED BANK: SAXUM CHANGES APPROVED

Apr 5, 2022

Architect Adrian Melji with a rendering of the revised project’s Bodman Place side looking northwest from Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Filling in a horseshoe void, Saxum Real Estate won planning board approval Monday night for changes to a massive apartment project in Red Bank.

April 5, 2022 - 7:57 am |

RED BANK: SAXUM SEEKS MORE BEDROOMS

Apr 1, 2022

Saxum’s project would be built on the vacant former Visiting Nurse Association headquarter site at 176 Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Two years after obtaining approval for a massive residential real estate project in Red Bank, Saxum Real Estate is heading back to the borough planning board in search of a booster.

April 1, 2022 - 11:16 am |

RED BANK: ZONING BOARD REJECTS PRC PLAN

Mar 3, 2022

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.

March 3, 2022 - 10:23 pm |

RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN

Feb 25, 2022

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.

February 25, 2022 - 5:50 am |

FAIR HAVEN: FIRST-EVER APARTMENTS OKAYED

Jan 19, 2022

A rendering of the proposed development, as viewed from River Road and Cedar Avenue. (M&M Realty Partners. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

More than a century into its existence, Fair Haven is on track to get its first-ever apartment project following planning board approval Tuesday night.

The milestone went unmentioned, however, as the board spent three-plus hours reviewing plans for the multiuse development of stores and housing on a former gas station site.

January 19, 2022 - 7:55 am |

RED BANK: PRC SHRINKS PROPOSAL AGAIN

Jan 18, 2022

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.

January 18, 2022 - 7:45 am |

FAIR HAVEN: MIXED-USE PLAN SCRUTINIZED

Dec 22, 2021

A rendering of the proposed development, as viewed from River Road and Cedar Street. (M&M Realty Partners. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Though its approval might appear preordained, a plan for new stores and apartments on the site of a former gas station in Fair Haven received nearly three hours of close scrutiny by the planning board Tuesday night.

December 22, 2021 - 7:55 am |

FAIR HAVEN: MULTIFAMILY PROJECT ON DECK

Dec 20, 2021

The project would be built on the former Sunoco site at River Road and Cedar Street. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposal for Fair Haven’s first multifamily development in modern times, if not borough history, is scheduled to go before the planning board Tuesday.

December 20, 2021 - 7:45 am |

RED BANK: $10K CANNABIS BIZ FEE ON TABLE

Dec 8, 2021

Map indicates areas of town that are off-limits for cannabis operations and sales with cross-hatching outlined in red. (Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A proposed $10,000 fee for licenses to grow, store or sell cannabis was flagged as possibly problematic by Red Bank’s borough attorney last week.

December 8, 2021 - 7:56 am |

RED BANK: BOARD NIXES REDEVELOPMENT BID

Oct 18, 2021

Saxum owns the former VNA site, viewed here from the former Raceway gas station on Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Saxum Real Estate‘s request for a controversial zoning change in Red Bank hit a solid brick wall Monday night.

At a meeting that lasted just 12 minutes, the borough planning board unanimously rejected a proposal that objectors feared would lead to massive tax breaks for the developer.

October 18, 2021 - 8:30 pm |

RED BANK: SAXUM HEARING DELAYED AGAIN

Sep 28, 2021

The resumption of a Red Bank planning board hearing on a controversial request for a zoning change has been postponed again.

September 28, 2021 - 3:45 pm |

RED BANK: SAXUM HEARING POSTPONED

Aug 31, 2021

A rendering of Saxum’s planned project at Riverside Avenue and Bodman Place. (Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Opponents of a potential tax deal for a massive proposed development in Red Bank may have to cool their heels until October to challenge the first step in the process.

August 31, 2021 - 1:30 pm |

RED BANK: BALLARD TOUTS NEW FEE LAW

Aug 26, 2021

Part of a recent building boom, 170 Monmouth Street is being converted from offices to residences, as seen in June. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank Councilman Michael Ballard says a newly enacted ordinance will help address the impact of “explosive development” on borough infrastructure and taxes.

But only if it doesn’t get thrown out by a judge, says Mayor Pasquale Menna.

August 26, 2021 - 6:40 am |

RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN APPROVED

Aug 17, 2021

A view of the north side of the proposed Shrewsbury Manor at Allen Place. (Rendering by Michels & Waldron. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

A plan to build 10 new apartments on the site of a Victorian house won approval from the Red Bank planning board Monday night.

The applicant also garnered praise from the board chairman for not pushing for more.

August 17, 2021 - 2:45 pm |

RED BANK: TAX BREAK CLOUDS SAXUM HEARING

Aug 17, 2021

Saxum’s project would replace the former Visiting Nurse Association headquarters at 176 Riverside Avenue. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)

By JOHN T. WARD

Red Bank’s planning board kicked off a process Monday night that could result in a rezoning of prime real estate.

But while the ultimate goal of the effort – a tax break for a developer – was not under immediate consideration, it was clearly on the minds of objectors, including at least one board member.

August 17, 2021 - 7:56 am |

RED BANK: APARTMENT PLAN ON AGENDA

Aug 13, 2021

A 10-unit apartment building would replace the Victorian structure at 63 Riverside Avenue, above. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)

By JOHN T. WARD

Nearly two years after it was first proposed, a plan for a new 10-unit apartment building is scheduled for review by the Red Bank planning board Monday night.

August 13, 2021 - 7:28 am |

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