So, I am reading in digest mode, my 4th Asbury yahoo digest in less than
24 hours. Might I add that the AP Yahoo group has been a great read of
late. All you new folks jumping in has brought fresh perspective and
insight that has been simply wonderful after the 3 4 and 5 way cyber
wars we have mostly fought here.
So, as I was saying, I am reading this long and interesting thread about
boardwalk proposals and I keep wanting to reply that it's all well and
good to have these
magnificent ideas, from $1 hot dogs to 4 story Natatoriums, it's a whole
different thing to have the money to speculate on building such things.
Then I started thinking about the beginning of the fishman era in Asbury
Park.
A period in America's recent financial news that seems long ago forgotten.
You remember, when it seemed everybody was really rich buying old
Victorian houses for 135 grand, watching the AP real estate market catch
up to the rest of the shore market really fast.
When every developer along the NE corridor walked in and walked out of
fishman's office.
Had those developers been able to make a deal, surely half, if not more,
of those projects would be finished and Asbury could possibly be looking
like the condo corridor they built in Long Branch.
Instead we got lucky.
Because then I started thinking about the resources that are still left
in Asbury Park.
And then Werner says again as he has been saying on this board for a
long time.......
"Its not hard to figure out (except perhaps by developers).
Use existing assets and historic linkages.
Convention Hall
Paramount Theater
Casino Caraousel House
Casino Arena (rebuild it)
5th Avenue Pavilion (restore it)
Other Pavilions (this one they understand somewhat)
Boardwalk/Beach
Parking
What I found particularly offensive and short-sighted at the Council
Meeting presentation was the statement that they were "Re-Branding
Asbury Park".
*And he is so correct it is not worth arguing.*
So, we got lucky. fishman failed at developing anything so we don't have
condo corridor and all we can do is hope and pray
that the MM people know how to figure out how to.
Use existing assets and historic linkages.like Convention Hall, the
Paramount Theater and the Casino & Caraousel House
&Casino Arena (rebuild it)&5th Avenue Pavilion (restore it)&Other
Pavilions (this one they understand somewhat) & the Boardwalk/Beach
& Parking.
just when you thought it was safe along comes werner preaching the
gospel according to asbury park because when MM starts talking branding
and not restoration
of existing assets we are going to be looking pretty stupid in 2017 with
c-8 howling in the wind and beirut meeting the debris by the sea..
