March 24, 2025 The owner of a private Monmouth County airport celebrated Monday, days after county officials passed a resolution ending their long-running bid to acquire the facility through eminent domain. Monmouth County Commissioners on Thursday approved a resolution officially concluding their plan to seize the airport, ending an increasingly acrimonious fight over the fate of the 746-acre property just miles away from a planned Netflix film production studio. “With the county’s decision to withdraw its claim on my property, I can resume my dream to make the airport into the first-class facility I have always dreamt it would become,” Alan Antaki, Monmouth County Executive Airport’s owner, said in a statement Monday. “Instead of investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyers, I can now invest millions in the airport.” Meyner and Landis LLP attorney Matt Dolan noted that he is pleased at the “successful resolution of this matter for Mr. Antaki.” Read full story at New Jersey Monitor web site here.
