Downtown Scene

Condé Nast’s Traveler Magazine named Long Beach Airport (LGB) one of the best airports in the nation. Flying high along with Austin-Bergstrom in Texas and PDX in Oregon, Condé Nast applauds LGB’s recent expansion and modernization noting, “It’s the newer concourse...

Downtown Long Beach Alliance’s (DLBA) organizational shift is always progressing, along with our Downtown community, which continues to evolve as a unique melting pot of investors, residents and visitors that proudly represents the culturally diverse cross-section of...

The Downtown Long Beach Alliance (DLBA) invites you to participate in the our DTLB Holiday Gift Guide. The Holiday Gift Guide will be available online at holidaydtlb.org as well as printed guide circulated for Small Business Saturday, including at our Makers Mart on...

If there is one thing the DLBA wants to encourage this upcoming shopping season (and every shopping season), it's to keep it local. Given small businesses are the largest retail employers in the U.S. economy, the DLBA is once again encouraging the shoppers of Long...

As the building at 100 W Broadway undergoes its renovation—dubbed The Hubb—and already boasts impressive tenants (including the DLBA), it will open one of two floors to be occupied by shared-office giant WeWork. WeWork is a "platform for creators, providing more than...

Following our preview of the Edison lofts development at Long Beach Blvd. at 1st Street last year and a temporary opening, we've been anticipating the structure's formal re-opening as it brings hundreds of new residential units to DTLB. Now, with floor plans and...

It is official: Los Angeles’s influential Beer Belly's second location in DTLB at Long Beach Blvd. and 3rd Street will open November 11 to the public. Even better? Those who sign up on their email list will score a $1 draft beer—and we're not just talkin' any brew but...

We're bringing you the Grilled Cheese Trucks to a polling place, Long Beach. And a photo booth. And games. And free live music. Why? Though voter turnout has historically increased both county-wide and city-wide, much more than half of registered voters avoid the...

It’s a good time to be a King. The Los Angeles Kings hockey team has not only done the impossible—turned sunny Southern California into a home for the world’s coldest sport outside of Russia's marathon at Barneo Ice Station—but scored two Stanley cups since their move...

Continuing its lineup after the inaugural Molina Entrepreneurship Series on September 22, this four-part forum sponsored by Molina Healthcare, DLBA, The College of Business Administration at California State University Long Beach (CSULB), and The Innovation Team...

Longtime advocate for the homeless and East Village resident Louis Mena passed last Friday, October 21, due to health complications that had been occurring over the course the past few years. Serving as President of the Long Beach Coalition for the Homeless, Mena...

They are bringing Snoop back to the LBC stage (along with Skrillex, 2 Chainz, and more). They have panels that feature everyone from Jesse Williams to Mike Will Made It, Steve Aoki to Tony Hawk. They are putting Long Beach on the national stage. And now the peeps...

After facing the City of Long Beach’s Planning Commission earlier this week, DTLB is officially on track to see two new housing developments come to life, including what will become the city’s tallest building. Shoreline Gateway’s East Tower, right next to the now...

Following successful events at The Sky Room and DTLB’s hotels, Live After 5 continues to bring the best of neo-soul into the ears of Long Beach as it launches its third Live After 5: Neo Soulstice on November 10 at the Liberty Gallery from 5PM to 10PM at 435 Alamitos...

The annual ranking of cities by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) through their Municipality Equality Index (MEI)—inaugurated in 2012—has given the City of Long Beach a perfect score for the fifth year running. HRC ranked the 50 state capitals along with the...