Yesterday morning, I stopped at America's Cup for a bagel. Totally dead
compared to before parking went into effect. I overheard a conversation with
the owner saying that business is down big time. Same thing with Russo Music.
They are saying that they had the worst week of business since they opened.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <hinge98@...> wrote:
>
> Meanwhile, several of the business's that lobbied for paid parking are
> stating that business has gone downhill since it went into effect.
> There's also unhappy people north of the parking zone in the residential
> neighborhoods. Scores of employee's who are not willing to pay to park are
> now parking in those areas. It really gets bad when the school in that
> neighborhood gets out. There used to be open parking for people to stop and
> wait for their kids, now it's become a log jam that did not exist before.
> Also, there were 3 break in's this past week, 2 on Mattison and 1 on Cookman.
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Claire Davids <claire.davids@> wrote:
> >
> > I'm with you, I avoided too - now i don't avoid, i think it's great that i
> > can find parking. If you talk to some of the retailers they're happy about
> > the parking situation and it has increased business for them. There are
> > always going to be complainers, it's human nature, if it wasn't parking
> > they'd be complaining about the roadworks, or the weather or the something
> > else, something else.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:32 AM, fancypaaantz <fancypaaantz@>wrote:
> >
> > > **
> > >
> > >
> > > I came in 2004, America's Cup was not here until much later. In 2004,
> > > there
> > > was Harry's Roadhouse, Rock Paper Scissors, Be Green and Janet's boutique
> > > on
> > > Cookman, with a few other things. When did America's Cup open? 2008? When
> > > I
> > > first moved here, I just parked on Lake bc there was always parking over
> > > there at that time.
> > >
> > > Quite honestly, I kind of avoided Cookman BC of the parking situation in
> > > more recent years. I could never find a spot and I find that annoying if I
> > > just want to run in somewhere for something quick. So, I think it really
> > > cuts both ways.
> > >
> > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, cbrianwatkins@ wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Where were these patrons (that are suddenly gone from the downtown)
> > > parking before the meters went into effect?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Dennis Dubrow <traderdube@>
> > > > Sender: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:42:37
> > > > To: <AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com>
> > > > Reply-To: AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com
> > > > Subject: [AsburyPark] 2003
> > > >
> > > > Asbury is a ghost town, I spoke to a number of Cookman retailers,
> > > business is down since the meters went into effect. It reminds me of 8
> > > years
> > > ago when we bulls some stores and rented them, then America's cup opened
> > > and
> > > we sat there waiting for a customer to come in...and waited and waited and
> > > waited. The merchants that are still there, and almost all the current
> > > merchants are hard working business people, not weekend warriors looking
> > > for
> > > a tax write off by opening a store...and then never opening. The high
> > > taxes,
> > > the extraordinary cost of opening a business in AP, and now the parking
> > > meters that don't even work are a detriment to downtown Asbury in a huge
> > > way. Occupay AP should be railing against this travesty of a money grab by
> > > the powers that be in city hall.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
>
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