Casino 2017. Paul Goldfinger Blogfinger.net. “Girls Just Want to Have Fun!” Click once to enlarge this Casino view.
The Tri-City News continues to make the future of the Casino Walkthrough a front page story. The Publisher of this free paper wishes that someone would commit to demolishing the Casino to make room for a festive structure that could function as an art gallery, culture venue, and a coffee shop. But he says that such a restoration would cost a fortune and the Boardwalk developer in A. Park won’t rebuild it even though they promised in the past to do so.
So the Tri-City is engaging in wishful thinking today as he suggests that the Parks functions at the Monmouth County level might pay for such.project, but not likely.
And in the non too distant past. (4/24) a suggestion was made that a rock and roll venue affiliated with the Stone Pony might attract thousands for concerts on the northern side of the Casino. Wow. What would the Grovers who would be living over there think of that? How about the redevelopers at the Ocean Grove North End Redevelopment site?
Here is a Blogfinger comment about this topic: 4/24
At the northern OG border:
The Casino where Ocean Grove becomes Asbury Park. Paul Goldfinger photo. 4/17/24.
I bet that those who are behind the Asbury Park South section at Ocean Grove have never considered how the soon-to-be enacted North End Plan in the Grove will be interacting with the Asburian area in the photo in the future.
On the other side of the Casino at Asbury is proposed a large rock and roll venue for concerts all season long; and likely there will be a hotel and condos.
Are the Neptune redevelopers and OG speculators going to share this concern with prospective condo and house buyers? And what will they do with the steam tower?
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