--- In [email protected], "Jennifer" <jennifern...@...>
wrote:
>
> Back in the day, Asbury Park had the phone company and the gas
> company. We do not have those types of jobs anymore.
- And Hotels and Motels. And Auto dealers and department stores.....
>.....we need to lure larger employers here. We have the buildings.
- no buildings for large employers, 'cept 601 bangs that TD says and
does need a major overhaul. Not enough.
>For a city to be healthy, it needs to have a balance of incomes.
>There needs to be affordable housing and reliable affordable
> transportation for the lower income workers.
- AP really does have alot of affordable housing. Is it nice is
another issue. That is if you include all the apartments and condo
rentals. Depend how you count.
>>It really does need a > good school system for the middle and lower
income workers because > otherwise it won't have balance in the
distribution of the population.
- With $100m year budget.....never mind.
> also has small businesses and local professionals like Realtors,
lawyers, doctors
- realtors with their license hanging in AP outnumber doctors in AP
probably 50 - 1.
> into doing that when I was at Bank of NY. We were going to
relocate > our Manasquan operations office and our Bradley Beach
branch to Grand Ave
- and they said....?
Check out thevillages.com (I looked at this place as a weird version
of AP - but it's 5 times the size...) They even have a farm that
people spend time growing food for the local food banks...
------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/
<*> Your email settings:
Individual Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
mailto:[email protected]
mailto:[email protected]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[email protected]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
