{"id":7685,"date":"2020-05-27T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2020-05-27T02:00:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T06:00:26","slug":"point-pleasant-beach-boardwalk-beachfront-inlet-some-businesses-to-reopen-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/05\/point-pleasant-beach-boardwalk-beachfront-inlet-some-businesses-to-reopen-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Point Pleasant Beach Boardwalk, Beachfront, Inlet, Some Businesses to Reopen Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, Point Pleasant Beach, N.J. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Point Pleasant Beach\u2019s municipal government is planning to open the town\u2019s boardwalk and northern privately-owned beaches May 29, officials announced late Tuesday. Access to the recreation area at Manasquan Inlet will also be expanded.<\/p>\n

The decision was made, at least in part, because of the \u201csuccess of a very safe Memorial Day weekend.\u201d The borough\u2019s mayor, police chief and other officials toured the boardwalk Tuesday morning alongside business owners to determine whether enough pieces of a stringent social distancing puzzle were in place to allow a reopening. Indeed, it was time, the group decided. Among the plans under consideration was opening in a limited form, though it was ultimately rejected.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpening up corridors on the boardwalk was ultimately deemed to be counterproductive to public safety and therefore all barriers will be removed accordingly,\u201d a statement from Mayor Paul Kanitra said.<\/p>\n

Private businesses, the mayor said, will be doing their part by providing \u201csocial distancing ambassadors\u201d along the portions where they service customers. Hand sanitizing stations have been set up at every beach access point and signage will be going up in the coming days.<\/p>\n

The majority of the beaches in Point Pleasant Beach that are open to the public are owned by Jenkinson\u2019s. Martell\u2019s also owns a beach that is adjacent to its popular Tiki Bar. Martell\u2019s announced that its beach will be open to customers come Friday. The bar menu will be limited to to-go items and will be announced later in the week.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not permitted yet to sell alcohol on the beach,\u201d however, a statement from the company said.<\/p>\n

Representatives from Jenkinson\u2019s \u2013 which owns the vast majority of the beachfront \u2013 said they would announce their plans for reopening Wednesday. Jenkinson\u2019s Boardwalk, the formal name of the company, will not yet be able to open its arcades, games or amusement rides, as those businesses are still closed under Gov. Phil Murphy\u2019s lockdown order. Food stands on the boardwalk will be able to mimic their off-boardwalk colleagues by offering to-go orders only.<\/p>\n

The town\u2019s controversial parking restrictions, which caused an uproar across the state, will be eased as Kanitra had always promised. On Friday, parking restrictions will be partially scaled back to allow for private and public lots to be opened. Residential streets, meanwhile, will still be off-limits to non-residents. The following Friday, June 5, the resident-only restrictions will be repealed completely.<\/p>\n

The inlet parking lot will be returned to normal operations effective Wednesday. Visitors will be required to maintain a proper 6 foot distance at all times while fishing or conducting other activities.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike every decision we make, these measures are subject to change if the COVID-19 situation does,\u201d Kanitra\u2019s statement said. \u201cWe encourage all guests to take social distancing very seriously and help us create the safest environment on the Jersey Shore.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Point Pleasant Beach\u2019s municipal government is planning to open the town\u2019s boardwalk and northern privately-owned beaches May 29, officials announced late Tuesday. Access to the recreation area at Manasquan Inlet will also be expanded. The decision was made, at least in part, because of the \u201csuccess of a very safe Memorial Day weekend.\u201d The borough\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ocean-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/point_pleasant_beach_boardwalk_jenks_jenkinsons-scaled-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1ZX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}