Culture & Commentary
31-story Hard Rock Hotel to break ground in Downtown Long Beach come 2024 (music venue in Jergins Tunnel included)
The mayor has said Hard Rock Hotel—taking over the southeast space at Ocean and Pine that has been empty for decades—is expected to break ground next year.
Urbanism & Development
The micro-unit housing project set to replace historic-not-really Varden hotel in Downtown Long Beach
Now entitled, here is what the project that will take advantage of the city's micro-unit ordinance might look like when completed at 335 Pacific Ave.
Urbanism & Development
New renderings for Studio One Eleven’s 21-story tower in Downtown Long Beach
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Long Beach architectural firm Studio One Eleven has released fresh renderings for its design of...
Urbanism & Development
Long vacant Sears building in East Long Beach to become Sports Basement (and why that’s good news)
The experiential active lifestyle store has taken a Bass Pro Shop-approach to its brick-and-mortars, proving success in a world dominated by e-commerce.
Urbanism & Development
Completion nearing on 189-unit Promenade project in DTLB; pedestrian paseo key for business
The Broadstone Promenade—formerly dubbed the Inkwell when the project was entitled nearly five years ago—is beginning to see its scaffolding come down as it...
Urbanism & Development
New renderings revealed for six-story, 160-unit senior housing development east of Wrigley
The Long Beach Planning Commission will determine whether developers can move forward with a six-story, 160-unit senior housing development in the Sunrise neighborhood just west of the edge of Signal Hill and east of Wrigley.
Urbanism & Development
Construction of 32 townhomes in Bixby Knolls takes step forward, renderings released
Initially announced in 2022, a project set to raze what is currently a commercial space and parking lot in order to construct 32, three-story townhomes at the southwest corner of Orange Avenue and San Antonio Drive in Bixby Knolls took a step forward.
Urbanism & Development
Foundation ready to be laid for Long Beach’s first new seaside hotel in decades
Crews have officially dug what will be the base for a new seaside hotel on the bluff at 2010 E. Ocean Blvd., replacing the former, aged Beach Plaza Hotel. It marks a dramatic shift for the project, which has been in a tumultuous adventure toward realization since its inception in 2007 and it finally breaking ground in February earlier this year.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: DTLB’s ‘Gray Ghost’ was an art deco masterpiece that could have been a library
My ongoing series, Long Beach Lost, was launched to examine buildings and spaces that have either been demolished or were never even in existence—including the forgotten tales attached to existing places. This is not a preservationist series but rather a historical series that will help keep a record of our architectural, cultural, and spatial history.
Culture & Commentary
Not as safe as we think: Why are so many fatal crashes in Long Beach being left out of data?
City, state, and federal governments depend on fatal crash data to determine which streets and arterials need money invested into making them safer—but how they can do that soundly when the data is faulty?
