See ya night clubs and motels. Seaside Heights asks residents to create its new identity.

The night clubs that gave Seaside Heights its reputation as a party town are long closed, and now the Jersey Shore borough is pushing further to remove the stigma through redevelopment.

Several projects are already underway and even more are in the works, including for the former Karma, Bamboo and Merge night club sites. Most will bring housing and businesses to outdated, shuttered and underused properties.

Now the borough is asking residents and business owners to help shape Seaside Heights’ new identity. It will hold a Community Visioning Workshop Monday night at 6 p.m. at the George E. Tompkins Municipal Complex. Officials want to engage the community in a consensus on what it should look like in 20 years, where it’s headed and what has been done to achieve the vision.

Mayor Anthony Vaz declined to comment, saying he’d rather wait for public comments before expressing his views.

He and other town officials have been steadily steering the town to less dense development since Hurricane Sandy, according to Mike Loundy, owner of Seaside Realty who also works for the city as director of Community Improvements.

“We have been very, very hot here with new development,” Loundy said, adding that in the last two to three years, at least 70 new single family homes were built in the 16-block town. They were all sold and are occupied as second homes, primary homes and rentals.

At least 14 motels have been torn down and developed into single family homes and condos, he said. And more projects like those are in the works, according to Loundy:

It will have 36 condo units with stores below.

Two buildings with a total of three townhomes and four stores at street-level and 11 single family homes will be built.

Seventeen units are planned.

Ten condo units are planned.

“There’s a lot happening here,” Loundy said. “Seaside Heights has been a well kept secret for years. It has a new, beautiful boardwalk. The pier rides are almost all new. The family that runs the amusements spends a lot of money keeping everything fresh and new. And we’re usually ranked one of the top 10 beaches in New Jersey. We’re one hour from New York City, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. And we have a beautiful bayfront most people don’t know about until they come here where you can rent boats, crab, or sit on the beach.”

Home values in Seaside Heights, like the most of the rest of New Jersey, are on the rise.

The median sales price of a single family is up about 12% from $730,000 to $820,000 in the past year, according to data from New Jersey Realtors.

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