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Downtown Long Beach is one of Southern California’s most unique waterfront urban destinations to live, work, and play. Board one of the many brightly colored, free Passport buses that travel throughout all five districts. Whether you’re relaxing at the Waterfront, joining the bustle of the West Gateway, experiencing the historic charm of North Pine or the creativity of the East Village Arts District or just enjoying the excitement of Pine Avenue.
Pilots wanted for Flugtag 2010; Your chance to fly (maybe) over Rainbow Harbor
Red Bull Flugtag Long Beach is officially looking for a few good pilots… or at least a few brave ones. (Don’t miss the video below!)
Applications are now being accepted for this outrageous flying competition that will splash down in Long Beach’s Rainbow Harbor on August 21. Think you’ve got what it takes? Can you succeed where Icarus [...]
Last chance to give input on Downtown Retail Visioning Project
The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), in partnership with the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency, will hold the last of three community workshops for the Downtown Long Beach Retail Visioning Project on Thursday, March 4 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 241 Cedar Avenue.
Attendees at the last two meetings have provided [...]
DLBA pledges financial support to downtown groups applying for neighborhood grants
The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) is offering up to $2,500 to support any established Downtown residential association/neighborhood organization’s application for a Neighborhood Partners Program (NPP) grant that is approved by City Council.
The NPP is funded through the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program, which supports neighborhood beautification and improvement projects and encourages productive partnerships [...]
Downtown Retail Visioning Project holds second community meeting
The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), in partnership with the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency, will hold the second community workshop for the Downtown Long Beach Retail Visioning Project on Wednesday, January 6 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 241 Cedar Avenue.
The major goals for the Retail Visioning Project include: developing a vision [...]
Live music at free East Village New Year’s celebration
Local rock music will be well-represented at the Downtown Long Beach Associates’ (DLBA) first New Year’s Eve Celebration in the East Village Arts District on December 31. Long Beach locals Avi Buffalo and Rival Sons along with Dusty Rhodes and The River Band will perform live for a full night of free music and [...]
Party Downtown on New Year’s Eve: multiple events ring in the new year
Downtown Long Beach will ring in 2010 with a New Year’s Eve party that is expected to draw crowds of up to 50,000 people. Among other festivities, New Year’s Eve revelers will line the waterfront to watch Action Sports Icon Travis Pastrana jump a rally car off the Pine Street Pier onto a floating barge anchored [...]
Phantom Galleries Lights up Downtown for the holidays
Phantom Galleries L.A. brightens up this holiday season by invigorating the streets of Downtown Long Beach with 28 light-based art exhibitions that illuminate 25-plus vacant storefront windows along Downtown Long Beach’s Pine Avenue, East 3rd Street, Promenade and The Pike at Rainbow Harbor.
Just after sundown on December 5, Phantom Galleries L.A. switched on Let There [...]
Downtown summer concerts earn LB a Sociable City Award
The Summer And Music (SAM) concert series presented June through August this year by the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) and the Redevelopment Agency (RDA) has been recognized with a Sociable City Award for Outstanding Achievement in Vibrancy, it was announced today by DLBA President and Chief Executive Officer, Kraig Kojian.
The Award, presented by the [...]
Use multi-merchant gift card at more than 75 Downtown businesses
The Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) has launched a new year-round program offering Downtown Gift Cards for sale just in time for the Holiday Season, it was announced last week by President and Chief Executive Officer, Kraig Kojian.
Downtown Gift Cards are currently accepted at more than 75 participating businesses, including restaurants, retail vendors and service [...]
Downtown tree-planting plans for 104 new trees
A green, healthy Long Beach is a city full of trees and open space. Long Beach is working hard to expand open space with new parks, green empty lots, create more community gardens and, of course, plant new trees.
“This is an opportunity for the community to come together and play a role in the beautification [...]
