Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The annual tradition of gratis parking comes back to the borough.
In just a couple of weeks, Red Bank visitors will get a brief reprieve from those pesky parking tickets that seem to pop up on windshields out of nowhere. Free Holiday parking is coming back to town lots. Beginning Dec. 10 and running through Christmas, visitors to Red Bank will be able to park in lots throughout the downtown for free. The annual parking charity measure is designed to attract more visitors to do their holiday shopping downtown and is promoted by Red Bank RiverCenter. However, borough Councilwoman Kathy Horgan had one recommendation for RiverCenter Executive Director Nancy Adams. "Nancy, please tell the retailers to stay open," she pleaded, recounting a story of trying to shop downtown a week before Christmas last year …
The Holiday Events schedule begins this Friday with a tree lighting and Holiday Express concert.
Red Bank RiverCenter recently unveiled its 2012 Holiday Event schedule, a jam-packed itinerary that kicks off this Friday with a downtown tree lighting and a performance from benefit rockers Holiday Express. Each year Holiday Express help usher in the holiday season with a public concert right on Broad Street that attracts thousands of visitors from throughout the Greater Red Bank Area. It's a grand way to signal the season but just a taste of what's available to see and do in downtown Red Bank through the end of November and much of December. From horse and carriage rides to pictures with Santa, the borough's annual Menorah lighting and fun activities like the Holiday Scavenger Hunt and watching the Holiday Harmonies perform, it's all …
Monday, November 19, 2012
In preparation for Friday night's lighting, crews were out this weekend stringing lights to the downtown's trees.
The wreaths have been hung, the trees festooned with lights, and this Friday Red Bank will signal the start of the holiday season when it flips the switch and sends a current of seasonal spirit coursing through its downtown. But, if you happened to be out and about Sunday night, you would have gotten a sneak peek at what the fuss is all about. A crew from Red Bank-based Powerhouse was out with a bucket truck applying the finishing touches to a job it started way back in the beginning of October. Each year Powerhouse hangs the downtown's holiday lights on every single Broad Street tree, taking a bucket full of white stringed lights up to the top of the tree and beginning the laborious process of providing not just coverage, but light …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
With power outages still widespread in Red Bank and Shrewsbury, businesses give it a go anyway.
On the Monmouth Street sidewalk, Charles Adjmi walked back and forth with a hand clutching a dozen or so cell phone chargers raised above his head. With power still out at his Red Bank Wireless shop days after Hurricane Sandy tore a path through New Jersey and with no restoration date being offered by Jersey Central Power and Light, Adjmi thought, why not, let's try to make some money. All throughout Red Bank, businesses were giving it a go Thursday, many of them reopening without power in an effort to return back to normal, well, as close as normal as they can get. With equally powerless residents roaming the downtown looking for a solution to their power problem or simply a way to beat the boredom, local businesses were more than happy …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Downtown Red Bank businesses dress up their storefronts for Halloween.
Everywhere you look are signs of Halloween. Even Red Bank's downtown stores are getting into the Halloween spirits - or at least the autumn spirit. Like the Holiday season in downtown Red Bank, the fall season is when it seems like most of the borough's businesses dress up their front window displays for the season. Check out the pictures above for a virtual tour of downtown Red Bank.
Friday, October 19, 2012
RiverCenter's Nancy Adams is painting a positive outlook for Red Bank's downtown, citing new business arrivals.
Things are looking up for Red Bank’s downtown. All along Broad and Monmouth streets construction is under way, and not just the roadwork that’s been a regular feature throughout the downtown for the past several months. Buildings are being gutted, signs are being erected and, the hope is, downtown Red Bank is back on the upward trend that’s defined much of its past two decades. Coming off the recent successful Red Bank Guinness Oyster Festival, Nancy Adams, executive director of the Red Bank RiverCenter, said what you see downtown is the culmination of hard work from landlords and tenants, the borough and RiverCenter, and the downtown business community at large. Though several prominent downtown locations still have brown paper in tape to…
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Red Bank business owners want New Jersey Natural Gas to keep their above ground regulators out of downtown.
Red Bank business owners are adding their names to the list of those who oppose New Jersey Natural Gas’s plan to install above ground gas regulators along the sidewalk throughout the downtown. In an email circulated between borough business owners and community leaders, George Lyristis, an owner of downtown dining fixtures The Bistro at Red Bank and Teak, encouraged Red Bank mayor and council to continue the fight against New Jersey Natural Gas. Currently, the borough and the gas conglomerate are locked in a lawsuit over the utility’s right to replace all of its 88 underground gas regulators with above ground ones that officials have called unsafe and unsightly. New Jersey Natural Gas claims the above ground regulators are easier to …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Road work is ongoing all throughout downtown Red Bank.
Good, you might say. Get it all of out the way now. All throughout downtown Red Bank roadwork is currently being undertaken. On Monmouth Street Thursday afternoon, crews were filling the sidewalk in front of the empty lot that will someday house a condo complex, while just down the street at the Rocar building workers were removing a glass sidewalk in order to replace it with one of those plain old concrete and brick ones. On Front Street, work on a major roadway upgrade has been under way for more than a month and continues each day. The plan calls for widening the street, installing an elevated intersection at Broad and Front to help slow vehicles down and make pedestrian travel safer, and adding additional signage among other fixes. …
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Ceremony acknowledges those who have helped represent downtown Red Bank in a positive light.
The goal of the Red Bank RiverCenter is to promote the borough’s downtown and its businesses. On Monday, the organization honored the efforts of those who have spent the last year doing the same. On the second floor of Red, the RiverCenter held is annual meeting, a less business, more celebration kind of affair that included award recognition to those who have benefited the downtown. The awards have been handed out by the organization for the past 20 years. Chris Paseka, co-owner of cupcake bakery Sugarush, was given the Ambassador Award because of his commitment to promoting downtown Red Bank and his charitable efforts, which included organizing the recent Go Naked, Check Yourself cancer fundraiser along with Sweetest Sin Boutique, …
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2:39 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Small business owners in Red Bank are placed at a Great Disadvantage when compared to business located in shopping malls and along highways that offer free parking Year Round. The last time I received a parking ticked for an expired meter in Red Bank was around 1982 and I have not shopped in Red Bank since then. Shoppers and motorists are not hens to be plucked by Mayors that want to fill their … more ›