Tag Archives: Irving Street
Irving Street market expands
The market is next door to a building that’s undergoing renovation where a new bar and restaurant is planned, The Station Bar & Grill.
David Drake closes, plans new location…?
A sign in the window of the Irving Street eatery reads:
“Restaurant David Drake has closed. Look for the NEW Restaurant David Drake in the spring in a new location. We would like to thank all of our local customers for all of their support over the years. We look forward to welcoming you back later this year.”
It’s unclear whether that new location will be in Rahway
. I haven’t been able to find out much more since Tweeting about it Thursday but Drake told New Jersey Monthly‘s Table Hopping with Rosie yesterday: “I’m not sure what is going to happen, or not happen. It may reopen in the near future but perhaps as Bistro David Drake. We shall see because I’m totally focusing on doing good things at Alice’s in Lake Hopatcong right now.”
Thanks to reader Mark C. who emailed the heads-up on Thursday. Way to crowdsource!
State of the City 2010
Mayor James Kennedy focused almost exclusively on the arts during his State of City remarks at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.
First sale of ’09 for Sky View at Carriage City Plaza
For the first time in about 50 weeks a unit sold in Sky View at Carriage City Plaza, according to property transaction records.
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Carriage City settlement still not executed
Carriage City Properties (CCP) still has not finalized or executed the settlement agreement with the Redevelopment Agency, attorney Frank Regan told commissioners during their meeting earlier this month. The Redevelopment Agency approved a settlement at its meeting in May. (For details on the agreement, see this earlier post.) A representative of Carriage City Properties had no comment.
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Park Square timeline: fall 2010
The second building in the Park Square development is expected to be completed and ready for occupancy by fall 2010.
Joel Schwartz, principal with developer Landmark Companies of Keasbey, presented an update to commissioners at last night’s Redevelopment Agency meeting.
About 44 of the 63 apartments in the completed building one on Irving Street are leased and the 96 units in building two on Main Street should be open by October, Schwartz said. There will be a total 238 parking spaces. Due to a different elevation on Main Street, two levels of parking will be on that side (photo above, corner of Elizabeth Avenue) compared to one level in operation now on the Irving Street side. The four-story, 159-unit project broke ground in October 2006.
Schwartz said there was an effort not to push the retail space, given the market conditions but also to try to first fill up residential units. He hopes to have more tenants by the spring for the 7,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space along Irving Street. The first tenant, Eyes On You, a high-end optometrist occupying 1,700 square feet at the corner of Irving and Elizabeth Avenue (photo at right), should be open in the new year.
After many months, dessert cafe opens
The windows are no longer covered and there was some activity as I drove home along Irving Street last night: InTheMix dessert cafe is open.
We first reported in May that the cafe would be coming to the corner of Irving and West Main streets and it finally opened last night. It’s been almost a year since a photo and camera shop left the 1,200-square-foot space.
If anyone pays a visit to InTheMix, let us know what you think.