Demolition is underway on the former City Place Shopping Center in Downtown Long Beach.
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Demolition is underway on the former City Place Shopping Center in Downtown Long Beach. It will soon be replaced by an eight-story building that includes nearly 300 apartment units and more than 19,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.
This week, crews began tearing down the indoor shopping complex along Long Beach Boulevard between Fourth and Fifth streets.
The building contained the since-closed Fresh & Easy grocery store, along with Jewelry Girl and Fashion Island.
In its place, development company JPI plans to build 272 rental apartments, including 16 affordable units, on the 68,733 square-foot parcel. It will be called Jefferson Long Beach.
This is part of a larger plan to build a total of three eight-story buildings with a combined 900 apartment units and 38,405 square feet of commercial space in the area.
The overall project is called Mosaic. It includes the parcels between Fourth Street and Sixth Street along the west side of Long Beach Boulevard. The trio of companies behind it — Turnbridge Equities, the Waterford Property Company and Monument Square Investment Group — laid out construction plans for the new development at a January 2023 Planning Commission meeting.
JPI will build the first of the three apartment buildings, with the other two to be constructed in the future.
Demolition has not yet begun on the building that borders East Sixth Street and Long Beach Boulevard, which contained the former Walmart that closed in 2016
