If the town really expected (or wanted) thousands than they missed a golden marketing opportunity.
They would have easily had several thousand people if they scheduled it for say 1 or 2pm. That would have allowed anyone in the area to make it as well as given time for the NY owners to come down. It would have also made for a truly impressive site and photo op of all of those people on the boardwalk at one time. An overhead shot would have been amazing.
I’m not saying they should have ignored safety reasons. I’m just pointing out that this is another wonderful example of how Asbury Park’s future has nothing to do with tourism. They are doing everything they can to turn it into a simple residential town. I just wonder how Asbury will survive solely residential. For the stores and restaurants to succeed they will either need to draw an enormous amount of support from the town and new residents (who may or may not live there year long) and somehow develop an identity like Red Bank did to draw in outsiders. It seems like a very difficult path. If the revitalization doesn’t work exactly as intended, I could imagine seeing Cookman Ave start looking like Broadway in Long Branch.
I still believe tourism is not only the right way to go but the easiest way. Asbury Park has name recognition for tourism already, it just needs to be fixed up and have people see that its back. For it to go totally residential is quite a gamble. The move certainly hasn’t worked for us in Belmar that’s for sure. Just check out our main street and see what could be Asbury’s future.
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