Tag: FMERA

Pulling up to the rebranded Riverside Marina restaurant, formerly Marina at Oceanport, improvements are immediately apparent.

Next month New Jersey will become the first state in the nation to use scientific “predictive precipitation modeling” for future developments, hopefully reducing flooding in some inland areas.

Sports businesses and a fruit-forward franchise are the first lessees at RiverWalk Center, a commercial redevelopment on 12 acres inside the Oceanport Avenue gates of Fort Monmouth. Construction is about to begin on the two buildings the businesses will occupy, with completion anticipated for spring 2024.

Organizers pre-sold 1,100 tickets, but ultimately close to 4,500 people showed up for the inaugural BouJee FoodieCon food and music festival held last Saturday and Sunday on the lawn behind Russel Hall on Fort Monmouth.

The challenges of redeveloping a 100-year-old former military base took center stage during May’s monthly meeting of the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) as representatives for two major projects – Netflix at Fort Monmouth Studios and a new campus for Monmouth Medical Center – requested and received time extensions.

Until Netflix begins building its planned production facility on Fort Monmouth’s Mega Parcel, someone has to mow the grass.

Final negotiations are underway with three potential tenants seeking to be first into the new retail center rising along Oceanport Avenue on Fort Monmouth, according to the property’s owner. 

A hotel, helipad, attractions, a visitor center and retail components are all allowed on the 292-acre Mega Parcel on track to become Netflix Studios Fort Monmouth.

Monmouth Medical Center, Inc., an affiliate of Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas Health (RWJBH), closed on the purchase of the 36-acre former Fort Monmouth Myer Center property Dec. 16 at a purchase price of $7,256,660.

During its final meeting of the year last night, the Fort Monmouth Economic Revitalization Authority (FMERA) was poised to vote on a Purchase and Sale & Redevelopment Agreement (PSARA) with Netflix for the fort’s 292-acre Mega Parcel in Eatontown and Oceanport.