Hailing Long Beach as a showcase worthy of an international audience, Mayor Rex Richardson pledged Tuesday to transform the city into an entertainment juggernaut with revitalized music venues that can draw world-class acts year-round.
In his third State of the City address, Richardson told a crowd of 3,000 that this starts with a new amphitheater.
Titled the Long Beach Bowl, Richardson said the venue will hold up to 12,000 seats and offer a skyline view of the city and Queen Mary ocean liner. For the first time, the city showed renderings of the planned construction.
It will be built at the ship’s overflow parking lot, he said, with an expected opening by this fall…