Press release from the Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation
The Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation offers substantial grants to qualified first-time homebuyers, as well as to homeowners and renters seeking to improve their dwellings.
A homeowner at Cedar Crossing owes years worth of unpaid fees, the condo association says. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge.)
By JOHN T. WARD
Housing officials in Red Bank are preparing legal action against a Cedar Crossing homeowner they say has both illegally sublet her condo and skipped years of fee payments.
A map showing the extended former landfill site outlined in green. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
We need a skatepark. We need a playgrounds for West Side kids. We need to remember that this is a neighborhood that can’t handle throngs of out-of-town visitors.
Red Bank residents offered those and other suggestions as the process of shaping a new waterfront park out of the former town dump got underway with a community brainstorming session last Thursday night.
With planning underway to transform the former Red Bank landfill at West Sunset Avenue into an 8.6-acre park, the borough Parks & Rec Committee has scheduled a “concept design kickoff” to solicit public input on the project.
The former landfill at West Sunset Avenue, as seen in 2014. (Photo by John T. Ward. Click to enlarge)
By JOHN T. WARD
Red Bank officials took another step toward the creation of a long-anticipated new park on the site of the former landfill and incinerator this week.
They also got some promises of help.
The Cedar Crossing affordable housing development is the scene of an Open House on Saturday, hosted by the Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation.
Press release from Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation
The new Cedar Crossing affordable housing development will be ready for its close-up on the afternoon of Saturday, September 27, when Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation hosts an Open House session between the hours of 12 to 4 pm.
Representatives from the organization presided over by Rev. Terrence K. Porter of Pilgrim Baptist Church will be on hand to show prospective homeowners around a model unit. Cedar Crossing is located just off Cedar Street, one block from the intersection of South Bridge Avenue and Drs. James Parker Boulevard.
By DUSTIN RACIOPPI
It took a little longer than expected, but the Cedar Crossing affordable housing project is a done deal. Just needs to be built.
The Red Bank Affordable Housing Corporation closed on the property, right, Wednesday, and by this morning, workers started turning soil on the two-acre tract at Catherine, Cedar and River streets.
“The first feeling that came to mind, the emotion, was relief,” said Rev. Terrence K. Porter, pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist Church and head of the borough’s housing corporation.