Parks & Public Real Estate

• creative crosswalks
• crosswalks
• DLBA
• Downtown Long Beach
• dtlb
• Pedestrian Accessibility
• pedestrians
• Sean Warner

March 3, 2017

Creative Crosswalks Coming to DTLB; New Rendering Revealed

by Brian Addison    in Parks & Public Real Estate

Photo above courtesy of Juxtapoz. Rendering below courtesy of the DLBA. First came the rainbows. Then came the piano keys. Now, more creative crosswalks will invade the streets of Long Beach and this time, DTLB will be the latest...

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Streets & Urban Design

• DLBA
• Downtown Long Beach
• dtlb
• Sean Warner
• Suja Lowenthal
• urban design

September 24, 2015

Activate a Diamond in the Rough: RFP Released for Design of Temporary Space at Ocean & Pine in DTLB

by Longbeachize Staff    in Streets & Urban Design

Photo by Sean Warner/DLBA. In its glory days, the intersection of Pine and Ocean in DTLB was bustling. At its peak—which is sadly in the 1920s and 30s—Pine & Ocean was seeing some 4,000 cross the intersection per hour on...

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Streets & Urban Design

• DLBA
• Downtown Long Beach
• dtlb
• placemaking
• Sean Warner
• urban design

September 10, 2015

Five Projects That Make DTLB a Better Place

by Longbeachize Staff    in Streets & Urban Design

Photo by Brian Addison. When we first told you that the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA) was giving away $40K in placemaking grants for DTLB-focused projects, we weren’t kidding. Five projects have been selected for funding (one of which,...

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Food, Parks & Public Real Estate, Streets & Urban Design

• Brian Ulaszewski
• DLBA
• Downtown
• dtlb
• parklet
• Sean Warner

June 22, 2015

Pedestrians and Diners Rejoice: DTLB to Receive Four Parklets

by Longbeachize Staff    in Food, Parks & Public Real Estate, Streets & Urban Design

Photo by Baktaash Sorkhabi. We had long ago rejoiced about the pseudo-parklet over at At Last Cafe in Alamitos Beach. And before that, the parklets along Retro Row. But now, the residents of Downtown Long Beach can smile at the fact...

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Out & About

• Advocacy
• DLBA
• Downtown
• Downtown Long Beach
• dtlb
• placemaking
• Sean Warner

June 4, 2015

DTLB Idea-Makers Are Encouraged to Apply for Grants that Offer up to $10K Per Idea

by Longbeachize Staff    in Out & About

Urban guru and pedestrian lover Sean Warner, the Placemaking Manager at the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), once told us, “If you genuinely don’t care for making the place where your community lives more livable, you are at a...

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Out & About

• DBLA
• Long Beachize
• Sean Warner

December 10, 2013

The Man Determined to Connect Downtown to the Water: Sean Warner

by Brian Addison    in Out & About

Here’s the thing with the Downtown Long Beach Associates (DLBA), the private organization that has taken upon itself to do things that the City can’t or just won’t: you can have your issues with them but they are becoming...

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