Architectural sketches of the Esperanza. (www.esperanzanj.com)
Lavallette has Joe Pesci, Mantoloking lays claim to James Gandolfini, and now Asbury Park can list North Wales native John Oates among its part-time residents, reports the Newark Star Ledger. Oates, half of the famed Hall and Oates singing duo, which headlined the recent July Fourth celebration in Philly, closed a deal yesterday with Metro Homes Inc. to buy a two-bedroom, two-bath condo in the yet-to-be-built Esperanza. For $675,000, the newspaper said, the guitarist will get 1,500 square feet of space on the sixth floor of the smaller of two towers comprising the $100 million building on the city's oceanfront.
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