Nobody was hurt, and the fire was contained to the room by the Middletown Township Fire Dept.
When Carmen Ramos returned to the Comfort Inn on Route 35 in Middletown Sunday night, she saw fire trucks rolling out of the parking lot. When she pulled up outside her ground floor room, she was stunned to see the plate glass wall shattered, and the bed and furniture inside blackened by smoke and soaked by water. "What happened!" said Ramos, a FEMA worker from Kissimmee, Florida who has been working in Lincroft since November. "Oh gosh!" she said. A fire in her room set off an alarm at 5:32 p.m. and drew firefighters from four township fire companies and three first aid squads. Luckily nobody was injured, and the fire was contained and under control by 5:59 p.m. The smell of the smoke from the fire could be detected as far away as …
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Zoning Board rules against an ordinance restriction in favor of a 76-room waterfront hotel. Environmentalist says hotel is too big, too tall for the site.
Don’t make the reservations just yet, but a new hotel could be coming to Red Bank. Thursday night, the Red Bank Zoning Board ruled in favor of Rbank Capital LLC’s application to reinterpret an ordinance restriction, completing step one of their proposal to develop a new hotel on the Navesink River. RBank Capital LLC, solely managed by Larry Cohen, has proposed to build a 76-room Hampton Inn and Suites Hotel on the corner of Route 35 and Rector Place (Block 1, Lot 1). The proposed job site is located on the one-acre lot where an abandoned Exxon station currently sits. Although there are already six hotels located on the waterfront, this new project does not come with ease. Before they can begin structural work on the property, RBank …
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Chris
7:09 pm on Thursday, January 17, 2013
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