The Warped Tour in Asbury Park was sold out at 13,000. Where do you
get your numbers Gary? I guess it comes from inflated distribution
numbers...
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Gary Wien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The Warped Tour brought 30,000 people to the town. Was this
festival
> near those levels?
>
> I agree with Werner. This plan was absolutely 100% against the
idea
> of tourism. It's amazing that a town with a beach, a boardwalk,
and
> history would abandon such features that other towns could only
dream
> about.
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2007, at 9:22 PM, charlie wrote:
>
> >
> > "The "Plan" was not created with attracting visitors in mind.
> > Tourism, events,
> > etc were notconsidered or accounted for. The Beach and
commercial
> > components are to be for the use of the "condo dwellers"."
> >
> > I agree, i think a lot of the boardwalk stores, food, and
> > other attractions are aimed at being worthy enough for these
> > million dollar condos. There for sure will be high class
places,
> > aimed to please these high end condo buyers. Although, i think
> > many aspects of the boardwalk will catter to a typical
boardwalk.
> > You can have a mix of both, and claim the happiness of
different
> > groups all at once.
> > With todays events, you have to wonder. If the roadwork
were
> > the way it was before, would the event still have parking
> > problems? I say yes. I remember a few years back when i was
in
> > highschool and i'd go to the Warped Tour (a concert of sorts),
the
> > streets were always packed with no parking. Now this is going
back
> > 6 years before any roadwork had begun. Parking appears to have
> > always been an issue. Now it's worse, becasue parking spaces
were
> > lost. You couldnt have gained any, but you didn't have to
loose
> > any either.
> > Places like The Wonder Bar and the Stone pony attrack a lot
of
> > cars on certain nights. These buildings are sitting in the mist
of
> > a changing enviorment. They don't seem to fit in 100 percent.
In
> > a few years, will they still be there? If they arn't then
things
> > may go along smoothly (not sure how smooth). But becasue they
are
> > still there, there almost in the way, or a blockage of sorts
> > causing insanity. It's not that the deisgn is bad, it's just
> > different then what these buildings came out of.
> > The design isn't designed in the same ways that the
previous
> > one was. The Convention hall and Casino are huge buildings.
> > However, they may not need as much parking as everyone thinks
they
> > will need. Why? Becasue from the way things were planed, its
> > possiable these buildings were not to be used as much as they
had
> > been. Not to the max, not to capacity. But maybe below
capacity!
> > They can't take them down. They know there would be hell to pay
if
> > they tried to, or did. These are just thoughts.. Clearly i
don't
> > know any information, or claim to know what's going on! Whats
> > everyone else think?
> > I like the lights, the sidewalks. The plaza in front of
> > Convention hall is nice. I didn'tget my curved sidewalk around
> > HoJo back, but i like the new courtyard a lot. I also consider
it
> > to be sitll be "open space" like what was there previously. I
> > think that area can now hold a lot of people. standing,
walking
> > thru. Compared to before, everyone had to squeeze thrue that
10
> > foot wide walkway around Hojo?! Now you can have groups of
people
> > coming off the sidewalk and heading straight for the boardwalk.
> > On one side they cut back the openness. Yet on the other,
they
> > opened things up in aspects.
> >
> >
> > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
> >
> >
>
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