Owners Sherry Byram and Lianne Pragosa have deep roots in town and hope that their new shop is the start of Main Street's transformation.
Mix all of the stylish home accents and accessories you see in the Ballard Design catalog with great prices and you get Sparrow, a charming new store that opened last month in Oceanport Plaza by long-time borough residents. Think topiaries and botanical prints, mercury glass votives and straw handbags. And then wrap it all up in burlap for good measure. The mother-daughter team of Sherry Byram and Lianne Pragosa have assembled a fun mix of goodies for the home with gifts, jewelry, handbags, children-swear and invitations right in the heart of what they hope is to become a thriving retail destination over the next few years. "There was never any doubt about where we'd open," says Byram of the long-standing strip mall in town that sits next …
Oceanport Plaza, the heart of the borough's business district, looks like it needs to be resuscitated.
Oceanport's new Village Center, which will include 35,000 square feet of retail space, is expected to open its doors in 2014 but not 100 yards away sits an existing strip of commercial space that is just begging to be filled. Oceanport Plaza, built along East Main Street about four decades ago, boasts a number of empty storefronts that at one point held staples for small-town living like an ice cream shop and a video store. In July, Mayor Michael Mahon told Patch, "We would encourage the owners (of Village Center) to take advantage of activity at the fort and Monmouth Park as the local economy improves and redevelopment opportunities stimulate investment in their property." Our call to Teicher Realty, the company that owns and manages …
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MissesM
11:04 am on Saturday, January 12, 2013
Mother-daughter? They looks like sisters!!! Best of luck with the new shop, ladies! more ›