Coastal Heights, New Jersey-An excavator was pulled away on the upper floor of the Bamboo Bar, and napkins fluttered in the air, reminding people to spend thousands of hours to make summer memories.

In the front of the building, the wine bottle is placed in the place left after the last night was opened, and the wine pourer is still on the top. Zipties fasten together an opening in the chain link fence around the house to prevent people from climbing over and taking things. A ladder stood nearby and was abandoned. It looked as if its user was planning to replace the bulbs in a colored lamp hanging in the Shore Thing Pub area. This once open-air bar was later closed.

The demolition began on Friday morning at the nightclub, which was notorious for large-scale battles with actors from the "Jersey Coast", but over the years, this was also the home of memories for many others.

The property was sold at auction in 2020 to repay the bankruptcy debt of its former owner, The Saddy Family LLC, which also owns the Karma nightclub. The Sadie family filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in February 2019 and said they planned to open two clubs in the summer, but this never happened.

The property is now owned by a group of partners, who are represented by Rudolph Daunno III of Daunno Realty Services.

The property is being redeveloped, and the plan calls for 48 apartments on the ground floor and 5.5 storeys above, as well as condominium amenities, including swimming pools and gyms, and a glass public area on the roof that can be used for gatherings and provide the area’s view. This is the artist's rendering of the exterior of the new apartment. (The article continues below.)

Daunno said that the project, called The Lofts at Bamboo, was carried out in collaboration with Seaside Heights officials as part of their redevelopment plan.

Daunno said that in the days before the demolition, many people took things from the bar as souvenirs.

"Anything with the word'Bamboo' on it, they took it away," he said. However, many other things are still behind.

"I recently discovered the old check-in sign," Daunuo said. "It says there are 3,400 people."

For some people, memory is something that cannot be captured in physical objects. Long before it became a bar, the first part of the Bamboo Bar property was a church. A couple who got married in a church in 1938 asked the town for help; they wanted to reiterate their vows on this land for the last time.

"I heard that a group of people got married there many years ago, and they would come in and drink together to celebrate their anniversary," Daunno said.

He said that Burke Construction will take three to four days to demolish and clean up the site. This is a video of some demolition work.

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