How about what they claimed would be delivered for starters?
All the boardwalk buildings completed and business in them.
A beach club with a swimming pool
The casino being repaired
Convention center restored
....
I agee that the Casino is the key thing. A shame they tore it down
and are now dragging their feet with whats left.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "sandpiper15" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <oakdorf@> wrote:
>
> >
> > List what you'd like to see....
> >
>
> Won't happen, but since the question was unconditional, a new
Casino.
>
> As bad as the unfinished condos and construction sites look, most
of them are inland. You
> see a construction site surrounded by asphalt streets or sidewalks,
there is a level of
> continuity and logic to it. You can work around it. However, the
site of a rusting stone and
> steel foundation for a demolished building has a starker and more
jarring visual effect on
> sand, next to the ocean. Particularly when you want people to feel
comfortable recreating
> on that sand with their friends and family.
>
> Does a parent want their kid building sand castles if there's a
possibility a tetanus-
> inducing rusty nail or pipe could be in that sand? Are people going
to want to play
> volleyball or frisbee, which often involves diving full-body into
the sand, if they think they
> might land on a nail or broken glass? Whether everything has been
done to clean the
> beach or not, impressions matter.
>
> This goes for the north end of Ocean Grove as well. They have to
deal with that mess on
> some level too.
>
> The beach is your number one draw in summer. Live music is number
two. Fix that Casino,
> and you kill two birds with one stone.
>
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