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The wood framing and caution tape boxed in by orange traffic barriers on Cartagena Street outside Lola’s Mexican Cuisine in Bixby Knolls marks off what’s expected to be the first permanent parklet added in Long Beach after the City Council announced an end date to the city’s temporary, pandemic-inspired outdoor dining program earlier this year. - ADVERTISEMENT - Luis Navarro, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Brenda, said it’s special that Lola’s location on Fourth Street installed the city’s first permanent outdoor-dinning parklet nearly a decade ago, and now the location at Atlantic Avenue and Cartagena appears to be the first post-pandemic addition of permanent outdoor dining spaces. ....
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The Rose Park Historic District is laid out in the traditional manner, with a grid of north-south avenues and east-west streets lined with palms, elms and magnolia trees. It’s a long and narrow neighborhood bordered roughly by the alley north of Seventh Street and 10th Street between St. Louis Street and a strip just west of Redondo Avenue. The ordered layout is broken only by the neighborhood’s eponymous circular park with a traffic roundabout at Eighth Street and Orizaba Avenue. - ADVERTISEMENT - The neighborhood is one of the oldest in the city, with development of the area starting in 1905 as part of Alamitos Land Company’s subdivision of its far-flung properties. The company was founded in 1888, when Long Beach got its name and became an incorporated city. The company was founded by the families of the area’s early rancho owners, the Bixbys, the Flints, and I.W. Hellman. ....
Surrounded by the whirl of cyclists, skaters, walkers, stair-climbers and scavenger birds, planted underneath the watchful gaze of the Long Beach Museum of Art and at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more fitting home for Dr. Asher David Kelman’s, “Puff of Wind,” the stainless steel sailboat he hopes will inspire young people to follow their dreams. - ADVERTISEMENT - Thirty-one-feet high and 17 feet long, Long Beach’s newest piece of public art appeared a few weeks ago where Junipero Avenue dead ends at the beach. If you’re familiar with the area, you know it is teeming with activity, making it a natural landing spot for Kelman’s sailboat, which not only conjures up images of movement through its design but actually moves when enough wind is caught in its gleaming sail. ....
- ADVERTISEMENT - Police said they first observed the driver speeding and steering erratically on westbound Pacific Coast Highway near Redondo Avenue at 5:05 p.m. Officers took up pursuit after the driver didn’t yield to a traffic stop. Soon after, the driver abandoned the car in the area of Fifth Street and Junipero Avenue, fled on foot, and was ultimately arrested at 2300 block of E. Fifth Street, police said. Police identified the driver as 24-year-old Kevin Adrian Hernandez-Rivera. The LBPD said he was booked into jail on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance, driving under the influence, resisting arrest and evading police. His bail has been set at $75,000. ....