The stretch of Pine Avenue between Ocean Boulevard and oh, about Third or Fourth Street has been unofficially known as restaurant row for years.
But as the Press-Telegram’s Karen Robes Meeks reports this morning, 17 restaurateurs between Ocean and Fourth have decided to make it official.
They’re branding themselves for three months (not as painful as it [...]

Should the city’s Redevelopment Agency get 12 more years to exercise eminent domain in North Long Beach? You can help decide, at tonight’s Long Beach City Council meeting.
But when the Redevelopment Agency board voted yesterday to ask the council for an extension–at its meeting tonight–several audience members were on hand to give board members an [...]

The core of downtown Long Beach will become a little bit more of a ghost town when Z Gallerie abandons the century-old Masonic Temple it has called home since the mid-1990s, according to a story by Press-Telegram reporter Karen Robes Meeks [CLICK HERE], and it might not have happened if city officials hadn’t been snoozing—or something—instead of returning the [...]

It’s officially not official yet. Despite hearing from Mayor Bob Foster, and devoting considerable discussion to the topic, Long Beach Chamber of Commerce hasn’t decided how it feels about Hizzoner’s proposed $571 million infrastructure bond–which will be in our hands and on our ballots in November.
And it may not know how it feels until some [...]