That is good news...
The same issue exists for Kingsley Street - The plan currently makes retail
optional. Considering that the seasonal weather has such a large effect on
Ocean Ave it would be prudent to mandate retail/ entertainment uses along
Kingley which is sheltered from the harshness of the oceanfront in the off
season.
Werner
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@...> wrote:
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> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "arcman210" <acme87rangers@> wrote:
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> > As many have said, Wesley Grove's biggest flaw is the lack of retail on
> > Cookman. Sounds like this problem has been realized and will be addressed
> > come time to start building again. I would safely assume at the time it
> > was designed, they didn't feel they would be able to lease enough retail to
> > fill out a block, so they designed without it. Much of Cookman (and the
> > boardwalk) was still vacant at the time and it wouldn't have made sense for
> > them to build retail they couldn't lease. They did place one small retail
> > bay at the corner of Cookman and Heck.
> >
>
> Which is why I was adamant on the waterfront redevelopment advisory committee
> to have a mandatory requirement of a minimum percentage of frontage on
> Cookman as retail. All wanted pedestrians to be drawn along Cookman to
> betwixt Downtown and the BW but the mandatory requirement was being fought.
> Eventually I was able to make the committee see (thanks to Terry) that the
> only way to ensure some retail on Cookman was to make it mandatory.
>
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