Sea Isle City  | September 4, 2009 By The Lazarus Team | No comments yet

Summer 2009 in Sea Isle City

This is a great article about the 2009 summer in Sea Isle City. It definitely appears many of the business owners had strong summers despite some lousy, June weather. If you have been on the fence about buying a home in Sea Isle City remember times are excellent to find a home. Mortgage rates continue to remain low, prices are stabilizing, and summer rentals continue to be strong. Three great reasons to own a home in Sea Isle City.  Start your search Sea Isle City home or waterfront real estate.

Bars, Restaurants Survive Despite Wet June, Soggy Economy
By Joe Hart

SEA ISLE CITY — As part of an end-of-summer survey, the Herald spoke with bar and restaurant managers in this seaside resort to find out how business treated them this season.

Those who responded were asked to grade the summer business from A (very busy) to F (very slow).

The best grade given was from Alex, a manager at the Lobster Loft, who does not give his last name to newspaper reporters. He said the restaurant’s summer business was “fantastic.” Alex gave the summer business a grade of A.

“We were the best kept secret at the Jersey shore this summer,” he said.

When asked why business was so good, Alex said it was because the restaurant, located on the water at 42nd Place, ran regular two-for-one dinner specials as well as happy hour drink prices and half-price bar appetizers until 10 p.m. all summer.

The next best grade was from Terry Eidenberg, manager at the Springfield Inn, 43rd Street.

“We’ve had a very good year,” she said. “June was a little slow due to the weather, but overall our summer was great.”

She gave the Springfield’s summer business a B+.

Len Desiderio, owner of Kix-McNutley’s and mayor of Sea Isle, agreed that the wet June put a damper on summer business, but he said that the bad economy and early return to school also hurt. He gave Kix’s business an average C+ for the summer.

He said many schools had started back before the Labor Day weekend, which sent families home from vacation earlier than usual. He also noted that college students went back even sooner leaving his business at 64th and Landis Avenue and many others throughout the city struggling to staff their establishments at summer’s end.

Desiderio wanted to remind visitors to come back to town in September since there aren’t many of the regular summer problems with parking, long lines and packed beaches.

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Sea Isle City  | September 2, 2009 By The Lazarus Team | No comments yet

No Eating on the Beach in Sea Isle City?

This is an amazing article. It lists the Shore towns that do not allow eating or drinking on the beach. Sea Isle City is one of the 7 towns profiled that does not allow eating or drinking on the beach.

Sea Isle City’s police department has jurisdiction over any beach-based lawlessness, but policing refreshments is apparently not on the radar screen. Lt. Dennis Felsing had no idea such a law existed in the city. “I’m a little taken aback,” Felsing said. “In my career, I don’t remember ever having written a ticket or seen one. People eat on the beach all the time.”

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Sea Isle City July Residential Sold Statistics

Sea Isle City
  123889 3900  Pleasure #103 $349,000 $302,000 87% 324
  125393 3900  Pleasure Avenue $329,900 $309,500 94% 138
  125772 300  LANDIS AVE. UNIT F $399,900 $379,000 95% 135
  126738 4400  Pleasure aka 24-44th Street Avenue $329,000 $315,000 96% 84
  128037 8  67th Street $495,000 $495,000 100% 63
  Totals   $1,902,800 $1,800,500 95% 149
        Townhouse
                          Sea Isle City
  122422 9  75th St. East $1,229,000 $1,115,000 91% 318
  124071 8300  Pleasure Avenue $719,000 $515,000 72% 252
  124419 5600  E Landis Avenue $769,000 $655,425 85% 184
  124507 221  W 45th St $629,000 $580,000 92% 208
  125147 316  E 46th Place $965,000 $785,000 81% 158
  127037 129  82nd Street $729,000 $690,000 95% 55
  127375 125  72nd Street $605,000 $592,000 98% 57
  Totals   $5,645,000 $4,932,425 87% 176
Sea Isle City  | September 1, 2009 By The Lazarus Team | No comments yet

Sea Isle City Sold Townhomes Statistics June 2009

Below you will find the sold home statistics for June 2009.

119393 137  81st Street East Unit $829,000 $655,000 79% 447
  120149 13  50th Street ,South $949,900 $841,000 89% 424
  124220 137  49th Street $799,000 $750,000 94% 200
  124262 130  E 75th St $749,000 $715,000 95% 182
  124515 221  E 45th St $629,000 $580,000 92% 166
  124545 137  56th St. $799,000 $760,000 95% 149
  124548 137  56th St. $799,000 $775,000 97% 158
  124810 33  W 82nd Street $1,175,000 $1,045,000 89% 147
  124929 113  E 75th Street $632,000 $550,000 87% 139
  125086 118  W 53rd St $799,000 $760,000 95% 148
  125142 8400  Landis Ave. #5 $419,900 $395,000 94% 143
  125802 300  Landis Avenue $399,900 $379,000 95% 107
  126014 205  44th St. $599,000 $575,000 96% 89
  126174 238  58th Street West $509,900 $495,000 97% 87
  Totals   $10,088,600 $9,275,000 92% 185
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Sea Isle City Looks to Improve Entry into Town

Sea Isle introduces plan to spruce up entry corridor

By BRIAN IANIERI

SEA ISLE CITY – A new downtown marina building. An expanded veterans memorial park. A study of solar energy.

City Council introduced a $3.6 million spending plan this week, borrowing money to fund an ambitious and expensive beach-to-bay corridor plan near John F. Kennedy Boulevard.

The bond ordinance includes about $1.2 million for a marina building at the city’s waterfront near the Sea Isle City Bridge, lighting and landscaping work there, as well as about $700,000 for a possible expansion of a veterans memorial park and restrooms.

Money also is set aside for a solar energy study and the purchase of vehicles for police, emergency management and public works.

The ordinance faces a public hearing Aug. 25 at 10 a.m. in the Public Safety Building.

“People say when you enter your town, if you can come up with a ‘wow’ sentiment, you’ve done a major task,” City Council President William Kehner said. “We’re looking at that, with what can be done with our corridor.”

Kehner said the city is not yet committed to spending all the money set aside in the bond ordinance. A proposal to expand an existing veterans memorial along John F. Kennedy Boulevard may rely on federal or state funding, he said.

“In this down economy, some are thinking if we don’t get grants for some of the work, we’ll keep what we have and do what we can with what we have,” he said. “We’re in that phase, putting the money forward so that it could be utilized. If it will be still needs to be fully determined.”

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Sea Isle City  | August 31, 2009 By The Lazarus Team | No comments yet

Amazing Job by the Sea Isle City Beach Patrol

This article highlights the difficult job done by local beach patrols.  I thought it was amazing that the Sea Isle City Beach Patrol deal with between 180 and 200 lost kids every summer.  It is a great job they all do every year.

Along a backdrop of endless sand and glistening surf, 17-month-old Caleb waddled across the beach in Stone Harbor on Sunday, holding a bucket in one hand and his father’s hand in the other.

His parents, Ryan and Kate Seremet, of Pittsburgh, take constant notice of their son, who is quick for a toddler who just recently learned to walk.

“You just have to be focused,” his father said.

But people are not always focused when it comes to a day at the beach with their children.

Southern New Jersey beach patrols reunite hundreds of temporarily lost children with their parents each summer.

The Stone Harbor Beach Patrol reported dealing with about 100 missing children per summer. Sea Isle City’s Beach patrol reported 180 to 200.

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Sea Isle City  | August 3, 2009 By The Lazarus Team | No comments yet

Great Look at Mike’s Seafood

A longtime favorite of mine, Mike’s Seafood gets an exellent review from Amie Santoreli at the Examiner.

Choose from soups like Lobster Bisque, Cream of Crab, or the Clam Chowders, and perhaps a bucket of steamed Muscles or Clams.

Entree favorites include the South End Combo (fried shrimp, scallops, and flounder with french fries), the Crabby Combo (Alaskan King Crab Claws & Snow Crab Legs with an ear of corn and coleslaw in an Old Bay butter sauce), and the 3 Lobster Tail Dinner (3 four oz Lobster Tails with an ear of corn, Baby Red Potatoes, cole slaw and drawn butter.)  Some of the other offerings are the Fresh Long Island Oysters, Nantucket Sea Scallops, Gulf Shrimp and Jersey Flounder and Sauteed Jumbo Lump Crab Meat.  Most entree items come fried, steamed, or in a sandwich on a Potato roll.  The classic chicken fingers, burgers and dogs are also available for those who don’t do seafood.

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Sea Isle City  | August 1, 2009 By The Lazarus Team | No comments yet

Sea Isle City Beaches to be Replenished

STRATHMERE, N.J. – Last fall, this was a beach town on the verge of being washed out to sea, the victim of lashing storms and natural erosion that can denude a beach within days.

Nothing had helped. A $600,000 seawall paid for by residents of the Point – a particularly vulnerable section on the north end of this Upper Township barrier island community – couldn’t hold back the sea. Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of trucked-in rocks and sandbags didn’t do much, either.

What a difference nine months can make.

A $5.7 million project that will deposit 890,000 cubic yards of sand on beaches here got under way July 17 when the wet slurry began to pump through giant, rusty-looking pipes strategically placed along the shoreline. The operation is scheduled to continue around the clock for the rest of the summer.

The sand is pulled from the ocean floor by a giant dredge owned by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co., an Oak Brook, Ill., firm that next will replenish the strand in neighboring Sea Isle City. Sea Isle will spend $3.3 million to fatten 20 blocks of its north-end beaches.

The projects are part of a $20.5 million plan to fatten the beaches in those and three other Cape May County resorts – Cape May, North Wildwood, and Stone Harbor – plus Atlantic City and on Long Beach Island within the next year. Congress recently approved $16.3 million for the replenishment; the state and municipalities will provide most of the rest of the money.

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Sea Isle City Has 1st Green Home in County

SEA ISLE CITY — “Going Green” has become a very important phrase over the years to help reduce energy consumption and negative environmental impact. With this in mind, many companies are looking for ways to create products that are more environmentally friendly—homebuilders included.

Hooper Builders & Developers is one business that understands the importance of what it means to go green. That is why, in cooperation with Mayor Leonard C. Desiderio and Nicholas Asselta, Commissioner of the Board of Public Utilities, Hooper Builders and Developers celebrated the ribbon cutting of the first “green” home built in Cape May County. The celebration took place on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 313-57th Street, West where the four-bedroom, three and one half bathroom home is currently on the market for $769,000. The East side of the duplex is $759,000.

For this new home, Hooper Builders used low voc paints and adhesives, which do not admit as many toxins, as well as TimberTech composite decking, which uses recycled wood flour and other scrap products, so that the home itself is making a better impact on the environment.

The house is not only environmentally friendly, but energy efficient as well to help cut utility costs for homeowners. This home features design techniques and ENERGY STAR® appliances to keep utility costs down. Design features include insulated doors and windows, air sealing of exterior walls, and high-efficiency air conditioning and cooling systems. With all of these elements, the utility costs of the home are reduced between $200 and $400 per year, and the home is between 20 and 30% more efficient than standard homes.

In a press release given out at the Grand Opening, John Hooper, President of Hooper Builders, stated the following: “Over the past few years, we’ve seen more and more buyers who are extremely concerned with minimizing their utility costs and their impact on the environment….Green construction is not a fad or a bonus feature; it’s quickly becoming what buyers want and what they expect from their builder. It’s the responsible way to build.”

The importance of thinking about building responsibly is one more step in the direction of better living for everyone. Sea Isle City is proud to begin paving the way for responsible living in South Jersey, and looks forward to more “green” homes being built in the near future.

Article from Cape May County Herald

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Sea Isle City Sold Homes Report – May 2009

CONDO/TOWNHOUSE
Condo
Sea Isle City
119553 4114  Central Avenue $335,000 $245,000 73% 411
120030 221  87th Street, Unit 304 $425,000 $335,000 79% 373
125529 4114  Central Ave. #315 $229,000 $220,000 96% 82
Totals $989,000 $800,000 81% 289
Townhouse
Sea Isle City
117164 126  74th Street, East $815,000 $702,000 86% 515
121156 4801  Central Avenue $743,000 $667,500 90% 340
121745 5000  N Central Avenue $825,000 $800,000 97% 311
122449 21  48th Street South $1,019,000 $990,000 97% 254
122848 118  53rd Street East Unit $799,000 $760,000 95% 245
123256 57  W 83rd Street $799,900 $725,000 91% 228
123342 122  77th Street $739,999 $697,000 94% 218
123460 8204  S Central Avenue $799,900 $749,000 94% 212
123799 133  E 51st Street $850,000 $775,000 91% 189
124290 110  79th Street – East $739,900 $650,000 88% 349
124491 119  W 80th Street $699,900 $645,000 92% 144
124514 17  76th West $975,000 $925,000 95% 227
125519 122  W 47th St $599,000 $575,000 96% 97
126424 25  82nd STREET $850,000 $820,000 96% 48
Totals $11,254,599 $10,480,500 93% 241
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