[AsburyPark] Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread oakdorf
noticed Kathy's Beach House for sale on Cookman: Ask is $130k. Very cute store, just need TRAFFIC to support the biz. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: noticed Kathy's Beach House for sale on Cookman: Ask is $130k. Very cute store, just need TRAFFIC to support the biz. I thought she was doing well. She's open all the time. It would be a shame for that business to go.

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread oakdorf
There's another one across for $77k. Tough to own your own biz. For anyone that's ever done it, and done it 'right', like I had, especially in AP, makes for long days and nights. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's another one across for $77k. Tough to own your own biz. For anyone that's ever done it, and done it 'right', like I had, especially in AP, makes for long days and nights. You need to have regular hours that

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread oakdorf
We've been down this road... you need a major player to draw you in. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread bluebishop82
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, dfsavgny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know they are starving for foot traffic. Marketing plan. I respectfully disagree. We have drawn up and implemented more marketing plans than I can count. The dirty little secret is that in the past 4 years there is no

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread oakdorf
You're right. You need that draw, like it or not. As far as artists and antiques, to me, their better left to the monthly events or shared spaces that works. For the downtown to move on, you need some major spaces back on cookman- you need the Steinbach retail done, with a downtown anchor.

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've been down this road... you need a major player to draw you in. or just more bodies living here with money. also, cookman could use some regular stores. this part of nj needs a good ny style salumeria (deli). i haven't

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, bluebishop82 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you look at Downtown when it was successful, it was chock full of staple items. If fact, within one block on Cookman there were 3 major department stores - Newberry's, Woolworth's and Steinbach's. Everything

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right. You need that draw, like it or not. As far as artists and antiques, to me, their better left to the monthly events or shared spaces that works. For the downtown to move on, you need some major spaces back on

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread Skip Bernstein
...you need a major player to draw you in. Red Bank probably has the most successful business district; it seems to be built on high rent office space providing a captive market, which is then wined and dined foremost, secondly provided additional goods and services in a declining hierarchy of

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread bluebishop82
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, Skip Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Red Bank probably has the most successful business district; it seems to be built on high rent office space providing a captive market,... Very true. Years ago the upper floors all over Asbury's Downtown was nothing

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread oakdorf
So much for consultants. For the developers - a condo is worth more downtown then an office space. The box is there. Maybe someone should of tried to lure those lawyer types out of Red Bank. Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to:

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread dfsavgny
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, oakdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So much for consultants. For the developers - a condo is worth more downtown then an office space. The box is there. Maybe someone should of tried to lure those lawyer types out of Red Bank. Contrary to Dan Jacobson's

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread Lighty
Additionally, there were no shopping malls, so there was no where else to go anyway. More and more downtown areas are becoming successful because people are getting turned off by the shopping mall idea. It's a regular cycle I think and the tide has turned to more of a downtown preference.

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz for sale

2006-02-08 Thread charlie leonard
everyone seems to be thinking along the same lines when it comes to the downtown, or maybei just havnt gotten thru reading all the messages yet. i dont know. 4 years later, there is still "nothing" in the downtown as far as my oppinion goes. i agree that onnce the stienbach building is done,

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread charlie leonard
"Today there is hardly any office space left Downtown. I know going residential up top was a good idea regarding nightlife, but it leaves our streets dead during the daytime shopping hours. A realproblem."asbury dosnt have the office space that red bank has, but asbury has a lot of stores

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Better Sound is Up

2006-02-08 Thread charlie leonard
yeah, i dont know why skip is saying bad things (is it, if so, i guess i over read it, or didnt read the message?) i dont know who dan is (but so far no problems there). i say we drop the stupid stuff, before this goes crazy. or maybe it already has. dont you guys know, by now, to ignore

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread Skip Bernstein
…people that work and shop in red bank dont live there. red bank has all the parking problems Didn't say they lived there, Red Bank has extensive parking east of Broad and north of Monmouth Streets and continually struggles with the question of whether to build a parking garage. What Asbury

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread Lighty
Title: Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you red bank has all the parking problems, they do fine. Red Bank definitely has parking problems; however, when I go to Red Bank I know of at least three major parking lots or garages that are available. How

[AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon - Greetings from Asbury Park

2006-02-08 Thread Skip Bernstein
…I believe that if you restore the Casino, pavillions and CH/Paramount, that AP will be 90% back I second it. How often must we say it? It's the key to all that Asbury was, all the positive memories and good times and remains the image and branding of its future. For all the good and hard

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon - Greetings from Asbury Park

2006-02-08 Thread Lighty
…I believe that if you restore the Casino, pavillions and CH/Paramount, that AP will be 90% back I second it. How often must we say it? It's the key to all that Asbury was, all the positive memories and good times and remains the image and branding of its future. For all the good and

Re: [AsburyPark] Re: Cookman ave biz - coming soon to a neighborhood near you

2006-02-08 Thread charlie leonard
"I don’t think Asbury Park’s parking situation is even close to the amount of spots Red Bank has available in the downtown area. "lighty, yeah good point. i guess i forgot about the many parking lots in red bank too. i was just thinking of street parking. asbury park has the one parkng