RED BANK - For decades, Anderson Moving & Storage, an old warehouse on Monmouth Street across from the train station, has stood vacant.

Look at the Anderson Building now.

Metrovation, the Red Bank developer that purchased it back in 2006, has transformed it into a four-story 49,000-square-foot building that will mix retail and offices with outdoor patios and shared spaces.

Sickles, a second location for Sickles Market in Little Silver, and Bottles By Sickles, a liquor store, is expected to open in the late fall, taking up the entire first floor. Booskerdoo Coffee Co. will operate a coffee and espresso kiosk at Sickles too. The Sawtooth Group, a creative and brand consultancy firm in Red Bank, has leased the fourth floor.

A spa is lining up to locate on the third floor. A financial services firm and an interior designer are expected to lease office space.

"To me, it is just this hive of activity," Chris Cole, Metrovation's managing partner, told What's Going There during a recent tour. "I want people when they come into the building to feel like it's different than something they've seen elsewhere and that it's inspiring."

Metrovation also owns and operates the Grove at Shrewsbury, the Grove West, 89 Newman Springs, all in Shrewsbury, and West Side Lofts in Red Bank, among others.

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Construction started in earnest in the second quarter of 2018. The design, which is inspired by the Pacific Northwest and uses part of the original 24,000-square-foot building, added a fourth floor to the building's west side.

"I just just trying to create a little different unique feel, but still make it feel like it's connected to the neighborhood and it wasn't completely like a spaceship dropped in here," Cole said.

Cole said he expects it to be fully occupied by the middle of 2020.

Workers are finishing the building's interiors. Sickles is building out its store on the first floor. The store's equipment will be delivered later this month.

Bob Sickles, the third-generation owner of Sickles Market, a Little Silver landmark, said Sickles is a specialty gourmet food store with fresh produce, including locally-sourced items, meat, fish and floral departments. The store also will offer delicatessen, prepared food, ice cream, gelato and sushi.

Bottles by Sickles will be a small liquor store. "We are just trying to add little touches," Sickles said. "I have always wanted for the past 20-something years to bring farm market together with urban specialty food store."

The store hours will be 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. seven days a week, hours that help cater to life next to a train station that connects Red Bank to New York City.

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Among the features, a garage door-style window that can open from the floor to the ceiling and a curbside window where customers can place an order.

The 8,000-square-foot store will attract customers from around Red Bank, as well as Middletown and the surrounding area, Sickles said. "I think that being a place where the food is special, it is very important to us not to be the average thing that you can almost get anywhere," Sickles said. "We want to be relatively unique."

There are other unique aspects of the Anderson Building. The lobby will have a two-story "green wall." The main steps from the first to second floor are made from wood salvaged from the Seattle Times building, which was demolished in 2017.

In the parking lot, Metrovation plans to install four 40-foot-long shipping containers. One can be used by restaurant or other retail business, such as a pop-up store. Another will be an apartment.

"These are going to be really cool," Cole said. "We are really going all out on things, investing in them and making sure they look and feel cool."

Three Forks Local Greens, a hydroponic farm company that grows greens using no pesticides and little water, will set up in a container.

The leafy greens grown there, including lettuces and herbs, will be sold at Sickles, said Sean Peris, a co-owner.

"We are actually going to have windows in it so the train when it goes by can see it at night," Peris said. "It's going to be up int he air on top of another container."

Three Forks currently has a farm in the Lincroft section of Middletown, using three shipping containers, and supplies area restaurants, including B2 Bistro + Bar in Red Bank. It is also building a farm inside a 6,000 square foot warehouse on Main Street in Keansburg.

A presence at the Anderson Building along with Sickles "is great for us," Peris said. "The Anderson Building allows people to see us and see us in the area."

The building also brings attention to Red Bank's west side. It's bordered by Shrewsbury Avenue and Monmouth Street.

"I think that it is transformative," Red Bank Mayor Pasquale "Pat" Menna said.

"In a broader sense, it has finally brought the message across to many people that Red Bank is moving and transforming in a direction that includes revitalizing all of its neighborhoods."

James Scavone, executive director of Red Bank RiverCenter, the downtown business association, said it will revitalize the area.

"The west side has seen a lot of growth over the recent years, but I think the Anderson Building and Sickles in particular are going to really be the game changer," Scavone said. "I think we are going to see that area really explode after Sickles."

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