The project has changed over time since the city began negotiations to sell the site to developers in early 2021. The new focus on senior housing is expected to make it more competitive for the tax credits needed to develop the site.
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Long Beach to cut cannabis taxes for equity businesses, explore broader industrywide reductions
The Long Beach City Council voted Tuesday for city management to look at how retail cannabis tax rates could be lowered to help a struggling industry in the city.
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City says Long Beach’s new police oversight director could be named by end of year
It could be several more months before Long Beach appoints a new director of police oversight that will be tasked with auditing patterns in policing and recommending systemic changes to the department now that the Citizens Police Complaint Commission has been dissolved.
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Hearing set in case about ‘abysmal’ conditions in LA County Jail’s booking center
ACLU attorneys contend in a motion that mentally ill detainees were shackled to chairs for days at a time and others were crammed together, sleeping head-to-foot on concrete floors.
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Answers, transparency sought in investigation of Long Beach soldier’s death
Members of Congress are pressing for answers about the death last month of Pvt. Ana Fernanda Basaldua Ruiz, who was a Long Beach resident before she enlisted in the Army in 2021.
Posted inThe Hi-lo
Long Beach STEM school takes home national championship title in drone soccer
The teens of the Sato Academy drone soccer team experienced a lot of big firsts last weekend.
Posted inCrime, News
2 suspects charged in man’s stabbing death aboard A Line train
Two men were charged with murder today in connection with the stabbing death of a man who was attacked aboard a Metro A Line train in Long Beach.
Posted inTourism
Long Beach couple to open well-traveled charcuterie shop within The Hangar at LBX
From Paris to Long Beach, the Alvarengas will share the flavors of their travels in their specialty charcuterie boxes, which will be offered at their new shop Fior Di Latte, within The Hangar at the Long Beach Exchange beginning April 29.
Posted inHealth Care
Blue Shield of California to open Long Beach office in July
About 1,000 Blue Shield of California employees will be coming to Long Beach this summer, when the company will open an office on the Aero Long Beach campus.
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Long Beach to open interim homeless shelter just as winter shelter at Community Hospital closes
Long Beach is moving forward with opening its first summertime temporary homeless shelter, which will open up 85 beds just two days before the city’s winter shelter at Community Hospital closes.