Great post Dennis.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Traderdube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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..
>
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