Tag: Fort Monmouth

The U.S. military’s downing of a Chinese spy balloon and other unidentified aerial objects across North America over the past several weeks has many looking skyward.

A wedding is ostensibly about two people professing their love for each other and joining together for a lifetime, but once the nuptials are over, it’s all about the celebration.

The team behind The Fort Athletic Club in Oceanport has breathed new life into the old Fort Monmouth gym. Before the Department of Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission shuttered Fort Monmouth in 2011, the building was known as the Abramowitz Field House.

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. 

Newly named New Jersey City University (NJCU) interim president Andrés “Andy” Acebo said Tuesday the key to the future of its Fort Monmouth campus is increased enrollment and that the school will remain open. 

There’s no shortage of news coverage for those wishing to learn more about Netflix building a state-of-the-art facility on a large portion of the former Fort Monmouth. One interesting tidbit left out of most news coverage, though, is that movies and television shows have already been produced on the site – by the U.S. Army Signal Corps.

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.

Major Fort Monmouth redevelopment projects that have been advancing through local, county and state bureaucracies for years are now becoming reality on the former U.S. Army base, causing disruption and some concern for a few neighbors.