A waterfront open-air music venue is set to open later this year, and city leaders celebrated the groundbreaking of the Long Beach Amphitheater on Wednesday.
With the Queen Mary and ocean water in the background, the 11,000-capacity venue will host its first performance on August 14, featuring TOTO, Christopher Cross and the Romantics. Mötley Crüe is scheduled for September 19.
“This is the first step of a much larger vision to create an iconic waterfront structure on the West Coast,” Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson said…