Downtown Long Beach is growing, thriving, exciting. Major hotels cater to Convention Center visitors. Restaurants in all price ranges offer choices among seafood, buffet-style, standard American fare, and numerous ethnicities: Japanese, Italian, Greek, and others. A shopping center in the Downtown area includes Wal-Mart, Nordstrom's Rack, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Ross, and other shops. There is a Certified Organic Farmers Market on Fridays with farm-fresh produce, honey, seafood and other products.
The LongBeach earthquake of 1933 was a magnitude 6.3 earthquake that caused significant damage to the city and surrounding areas.
LongBeach used to have a sizable Japanese-American population mostly working in the fish canneries on Terminal Island and small truck farms in the area, but with intermarriage and other factors, it is now less than 1% of the population of LongBeach.
LongBeach Municipal Airport serves the LongBeach, Los Angeles, California and Orange County areas and is relatively small, considering the area's population.
DowntownLongBeach," the Place to Be, And Be Yourself," is a unique urban environment featuring five dynamic business centers and livable neighborhoods with attractive streetscapes.
Visitor-friendly DowntownLongBeach is rich in areas to discover from the exciting Waterfront, creative East Village Arts District, entertaining Pine Avenue, the busy West Gateway, to the historic charm of North Pine.
DowntownLongBeach, "the Place to Be, And Be Inspired," is the perfect location for business, whether you're a retail tenant interested in our emerging retail and restaurant districts, or an office tenant looking to take advantage of an authentic Downtown lifestyle.