^^^ The Aquarium is nice. But. I always felt it was tooooo small. Especially since its the aquarium of the PACIFIC. It needs to be at least three times the size it is now. Last time I went, I walked around and did all of the "activities" in less than 30 minutes. There is plenty of room to expand., Over the water, Its HUGE parking lot that barely gets half full and the barely used park next door.
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I totally agree. Like Oakland (and to some degree Sacramento) in the north, Long Beach suffers from being in the shadow of it's larger more famous neighbor. There's so much *potential* in Long Beach. It has great weather and is the most walkable city in the area but I wonder about the air quality. I heard it's not so great because of the port and oil. So I understand why they focused on tourism to take up the slack of declining manufacturing but there's just nothing to really compel me to go to Long Beach. Although the Queen Mary/Urban Adventures project seems like a step in the right direction what would really appeal to me is dynamic oceanfront city and it's something that is missing in Southern California (San Diego is on a bay and Santa Monica is a suburb.) To make that happen LB needs a lot more residential towers. I'm just worried the old mentality is at play, especially now that there's the distraction of the 16-day 2028 Summer Olympics, eleven years from now.
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I Agree. Long Beach needs a solid 100k new units of some shape or form downtown. It dies quickly at night. And the nimby problem in Long Beach is probably one of the worst in ALL of LA. The amount of rundown 2-3 story neglected apartments that are located in the downtown area is just sad. Every time a developer comes in to build something. The Nimbys come in yelling and screaming with their pitchforks saying no. I'm surprised the City hall redevelopment got approval.
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