Businesses in downtown Long Beach are calling for increased safety measures to help revitalize the area.
Lawmakers met in Long Beach Tuesday examining ways to help businesses downtown recover from recent challenging years."The best way to address challenges is to have an activated corridor, have an activated downtown," said Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson. "The more we activate it, the safer community we have."Richardson and Matt Haney led the event.
"Families aren’t coming down because they don’t feel safe," said Le Bras.Le Bras said 2023 was a tough year for restaurants in Long Beach, but things have slowly turned around in 2024."If you talk to any businessowner or manager around here, they’ll say ‘23 was a really bad year," said Le Bras. "Whoever got out of ’23 was barely hanging on.
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