Critics say Redevelopment Agency eats cash, produces blight

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
In 1988, the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency greenlighted the demolition of the historic Jergins Trust building, a stately old high-rise and California landmark. They plowed it under to make way for a hotel. But today, 20 years later, there’s nothing there—or rather this: a chain-link [...]