What Belongs at Former Gas Station Site?

For close to 70 years the one-acre plot at the base of the Route 35 bridge to Middletown served as a gas station. When the Exxon finally closed about a decade ago, decisions about what to do with the site immediately started popping up.

Currently, a developer is hoping to build a six-story, and Suites on the property. With the site plan at and threatening to drive the developer away, we wondered what Red Bank residents and Patch readers would like to see at the site.

Go ahead, use your imagination. Feasibility is for someone else to worry about.

The 1.04 acre parcel sits along the Navesink River on one side and residential properties on the other. It's also got plenty of frontage on Route 35. All of these characteristics make it simultaneously a good and wrong fit for a number of uses. In the comment sections of the roughly 20 or so articles we've written on the subject in the past several months we've seen users register their support for the proposed hotel while others have distinctly gone the other way. 

So we ask, what's the best fit for this piece of land? The proposed hotel, a park - when that is remediated, of course - public water access, business offices, residential properties might all work in the right circumstances. Tell us what you'd like to see at the site in the comments below.