Asbury Park City Council
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The Asbury Park City Council, under pressure to show more progress on redeveloping 56 acres on the blighted oceanfront, has given the master developer one month to negotiate changes in its agreement with the city to speed progress and prove its financial ability to fulfill the plan. Deputy Mayor James Bruno, a member of the five-member City Council, said that the new deadline was established because they were sick of looking at those buildings down there, referring to the Beaux Arts Convention Hall and the other structures that the redeveloper bought from the city. For the last several years, individuals have invested heavily in the hopes of Asbury Park's rebirth and bought up sagging properties in and around the oceanfront redevelopment area at bargain prices in hopes of a future bonanza. The Asbury Park City Council, under pressure to show more progress on redeveloping 56 acres on the blighted oceanfront, has given the master developer one month to negotiate changes in its agreement with the city to speed progress and prove its financial ability to fulfill the plan. The attempt to push things along comes some four years after the city entered into the agreement with Asbury Partners, the developer.