Great point, Oak.
Isn't that area where the Asbury Park Golf Course or Airport used to
be? It wasn't in AP, but it was marketed that way.
Perhaps Madison Marquette should pay for some naming rights and call
it the Asbury Park Outlet Stores (the other one is commonly referred
to as the Jackson Outlets, but I'm not sure if that's the official
name).
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "arcman210" <acme87rangers@>
> wrote:
> >
> > The new "high-end" outlet mall is opening on Rt 66 in Tinton
Falls
> this
> > November (the tenants were just announced today).
>
>
> We discussed this one before.
>
> You have a well known developer who spent hundreds of millions to
> build the place - and has experience drawing people to their
outlets
> (they took the concept and ran with it).
>
> The outlet can only HELP - that is, if you know how to market it.
>
> A bunch of stores off the parkway - the "Asbury Park" exit. Get it?
>
> Time to show what Asbury Park has in the summer - a beach and
> boardwalk - for AFTER shopping, shopping break - or for husbands
(or
> signifigant other) to go cruising.
>
> If an extra 5,000 people are 5 miles away - what will YOU do to
get
> them to see what YOU have? They came to spend money - your goal is
to
> take it from them - letting thme go home empty handed.
>
> We did it on the boardwalk. I never turned a kid away that said to
> me "hey mister... what you got for 25 cent..can I get a soda or an
> ice cream.." or like my 90 year old neighbor who told me that if
they
> put $5.00 down to shoot a gun and it cost only $1 - you never let
> them leave..."
>
> Kind of like getting a desert and coffee at some place in ap after
> dinner - you think you did alright with just the dinner - then
bam -
> you're out another $30...
>
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