For those of you who remember Asbury Park as "what it use to be", or home to Bruce Springsteen, or a run down city with no hope of coming back to its glory days - - - - - you should come visit it now. I don't think you'd recognize the place. True, it still has quite a way to go, and the economic downturn is not helping it come back any faster. But there's a lot of hope here as well as a lot of re-building. Thanks to the developer Madison Marquette, the boardwalk has all the pavilions open - - even now in the winter. Great restaurants, fashionable shops, Live Nation programming the Paramount (newly restored) and Convention Hall. The Stone Pony and The Wonder Bar are also open. Then there's the downtown area all along Cookman Ave that is springing to life with restaurants, galleries, shops and its really becoming the center of the Spirit of Asbury.
So what's all this got to do with ROCK and a HEART PLACE? Well, Holiday Express is a Monmouth County charitable organization. Tim McLoone owns a new supper club here on the boardwalk. Many of the band members play locally here in the clubs and have quite a following. Asbury has kind of been our second home for the past few years ever since the production of the film, and its getting more so every day as an exciting ever changing place to be.
