Urbanism & Development
Beach Streets returns with Gayborhood-to-DTLB event (yes, Pride party at Bixby Park included)
Tens of thousands of people have participated in the car-free events that allows bicyclists, skaters, walkers, and more to roam the streets safely—and this year, things are about to get more colorful.
Urbanism & Development
Colorado Lagoon to undergo massive transformation via connecting to Marine Stadium
The Colorado Lagoon is one of Long Beach's most successful park comeback stories, going from polluted mess to popular oasis—and its grandeur is about to become even greater as it will soon fully connect to Alamitos Bay with construction beginning in 2022.
Urbanism & Development
Inching closer to reality, city seeks public input on Belmont Shore aquatics center (plus history on the old pool)
Years after demolishing the mid-mod Belmont in 2014—deemed unsafe due to structural concerns in 2012—the debate over how to create a new aquatics center for Long Beach is being brought back to the public.
Culture & Commentary
Celebrating the Latino & Latinx creators that ‘artify’ our urban landscape
We explore how resilient Latino and Latinx neighborhoods from Long Beach to Minneapolis are adapting and reclaiming their built environment to make up for the lack of accommodations architecture and city planning has made for communities of color.
Urbanism & Development
A view from the top: Your first look inside Long Beach’s tallest building, the Shoreline Gateway tower
At 35 stories, the Shoreline Gateway is Long Beach tallest tower—and its most expensive, with two-story penthouses fetching up to $15,000 per month in rent.
Urbanism & Development
Crews break ground on $57.7M affordable housing complex in Cambodia Town
The 108-unit complex located in Cambodia Town in Central Long Beach will be dedicated to affordable housing and transitional housing for seniors who have experienced homelessness.
Urbanism & Development
Long Beach to receive over $3M in SB1 funds to improve Market St. and Orange Ave. (cycle track included)
Passed in 2017, Senate Bill 1 uses over $5B annually to fix roads, freeways and bridges in communities across California, along with contributions toward transit. These funds are split equally between state and local investments.
Urbanism & Development
Construction nears completion on 20-unit luxury development in DTLB (without 24-hour diner)
The developmental boom continues in Long Beach: As Shoreline Gateway, the city's tallest tower, nears opening its doors to new residents (at least those that can afford rents ranging from $3,090 for a studio to $13,000-plus for its penthouses), an influx of other developments are well underway or have broken ground.
Urbanism & Development
Construction nears completion on 142-unit mixed-use project in DTLB
Construction is nearing completion on a seven-story, 142-unit mixed-use development at the southwest corner of Broadway and Magnolia dubbed "The Magnolia," just across the street from Long Beach's Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse.
Urbanism & Development
Construction on Lincoln Park continues, aims for early 2022 opening
With around two years of further construction following the setback of construction nationwide during the pandemic, Plenary Properties—the group responsible for designing and constructing the new civic center—has begun construction on one of the project's most important features: the redesign of one of Downtown's most accessible green spaces, Lincoln Park.
