What's sad, is that I have offered my services to several downtown business owners, at a largely discounted rate over the last 4yrs, only to be scoffed at, told that the Chamber was handling marketing/advertising, and that once the Waterfront drew in people downtown would be fine
Someone was way off with that Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Dubrow <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 12:35:00 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: 2003 Many of you are personalizing the situation. The fact is that if you talk to the business owners who rely on their business to live, they are down. Some of them are holding out hope that in the long run the parking will pay off. Before the parking went into effect I know a couple of downtown residents that parked 2 or 3 cars on Cookman, leaving them there for days at a time. Similarly, we used to watch the owners/employees of stores park their cars in front of their stores all day, yet they still complained they had no business. And while we all know that the riots of July 4 are the traditional date that started the decay of Asbury as a downtown shopping mecca, it was the malls and free parking that had an equally bad affect on downtowns in Red Bank and Long Branch as well as Asbury. And it has been mentioned, where is the marketing for downtown AP? There is none, other than a weekly huge email from the city, that basically promotes bars and restaurants. All, 100% of the business owners I know and have recently spoken with about the parking are/were in favor of the paid parking, but that doesn't change the fact that they are going to have a helluva time coming up with the Nov 1 rent check. And there is another issue that is not being discussed. The business owners and their employees who work after dark, who work until 10PM and later. They now have to walk 3-4-5 blocks to their cars at night. I have been told that one person has already been accosted and robbed while walking to their car. While paid parking is a fruitful plan, the fruit needs to start out as seeds, or it's artificial; the implementation of park; The Parking Plan, is either non-existent, or artificial. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
