Events & Festivals
Beach Streets 2024 will arrive in North Long Beach this Saturday
After fear that not a single Beach Streets event would happen in 2024 at all due to a lack of funding, city officials have formally cleared the way for Beach Streets Uptown to move forward in the fall.
Urbanism & Development
Ferris wheel on the water? Updated renderings, new proposals for San Pedro’s massive West Harbor development
While this year's arrival quickly wiped away the hopes of opening in late 2023—it has now been pushed to 2026—the West Harbor San Pedro developers have taken a tangible step forward. And that is with the completion of the development’s first building, dubbed Building 1A.
Urbanism & Development
73-unit affordable housing project proposed for Cal Heights at 3401 Cerritos Ave. in Long Beach
An initial study looking at the environmental consequences of a proposed affordable housing project at 3401 Cerritos Ave. in Cal Heights has been formally submitted to the city.
Urbanism & Development
Historic 115 Pine Ave. building in Downtown Long Beach to be converted to housing
The iconic, 1906 French Renaissance Revival gem that is the Enloe Building at 115 Pine Ave. is set to be converted to 70 housing...
Urbanism & Development
Harbor Yard, the $92M affordable housing project in Central Long Beach, nears completion
Harbor Yard—the massive, $92M affordable housing development at 2400 Long Beach Blvd.—is nearing completion as crews finally begin the final touches after breaking ground in early 2023.
Urbanism & Development
400 Oceangate building in Downtown Long Beach proposed as 275-unit complex
The high-rise at 400 Oceangate, which used to be owned by (and home to) Long Beach law firm Keesal, Young & Logan, faces a new future.
Culture & Commentary
2028 Summer Olympics and Long Beach: Your guide to everything happening
The 2028 Summer Olympics will be hosted by our neighbor to the north—and it will have massive impacts on Long Beach. Here is your complete guide to what is being proposed, where things are happening, and what improvements (yes, improvements!) are happenin
Food & Drink
Long Beach’s first Wild Fork Foods grocer to open Aug. 28; grand opening is Sept. 25
Exotic meat lovers rejoice: alligator, ostrich, bison, rabbit... These are just a few of the some 500 varieties of frozen meats and seafood—flash frozen...
Culture & Commentary
West Long Beach staple Gemmae Bake Shop officially takes over a fire station in Bixby Knolls
After months of negotiations with the City—including its Cultural Heritage Commission—it official. Filipino staple Gemmae Bake Shop will move into the now-abandoned Fire Station 9 in Bixby Knolls.
Food & Drink
Sprouts to open new grocery market by Long Beach traffic circle Oct. 11
Sprouts Long Beach, the latest location from the farmers market inspired grocer, will be opening Oct. 11.
