The Holy Innocents School in Long Beach’s Wrigley neighborhood could soon begin a three-phase expansion of its property on Pacific Avenue that will transform the existing school to accommodate more students and make room for a new church.
City residents and businesses could still see higher bills because of high chemical levels outside of Long Beach.
Years after they tabled the idea in 2015, city officials are taking another look at converting a portion of freeway into park space in West Long Beach.
The Long Beach City Council will discuss a potential plan to replace an underutilized portion of the Terminal Island Freeway in West Long Beach with nearly 25 acres of new green space.
Superintendent-President Mike Muñoz is preparing to give his first post-pandemic state of the college address, which will highlight an institution that may have been permanently transformed over the last three years.
The cold-weather shelter has been consistently full since it opened. The city wants to avoid pushing people back onto the streets while it looks for more permanent housing.
Dozens of nonprofit, neighborhood association and business improvement district leaders turned out to the commission’s Wednesday meeting to demand their current exemption from the lobbying law remain intact.
A long-awaited expansion of Davenport Park in North Long Beach could begin as soon as April after the City Council voted Tuesday night to award a construction contract that will double the park’s size.
Long Beach is applying for a $50 million loan from the state that could help fund an affordable housing project near St. Mary Medical Center along with a variety of street and pedestrian improvements near Downtown.
The city’s previously projected budget deficit of over $40 million is now just under $6 million, but uncertainty remains as new employee contracts and a statewide oil law could hamper the city’s financial future.
