Long Beachs downtown gets visit from state officials NBC Los Angeles [Video]

Downtowns across the state are struggling to bounce back after the pandemic, but in Long Beach there has been successes that have caught the eye of the state.

“(Long Beach is) building housing, investing in the waterfront, and people are coming to visit,” said Assembly Matt Haney, the head of the California Downtown Recovery Select Committee, who toured the promenade area Tuesday afternoon. 

Long Beach has built 6,500 new housing units in the downtown area, up from 5,000 units projected.

But with those successes come continuous problems that residents and business owners deal with daily,

“Just last night, one of our residents was mugged,” said Joe Harding, Long Beach property manager. “(The suspect) took her purse, used her fob to break into the building and broke into a few storage units.”

Harding said it’s just another example of the crime and chaos residents and business owners have had to deal …