Downtown Long Beach may not be on fire the way Downtown LA is, but there’s still some action poppin’ down there: a 17-story mixed-user called The Current breaks ground on Friday reports Longbeachize, with 223 luxury units, 6,750 square feet of retail, and a 25,000-square-foot plaza that will include more restaurants and shops. The $70-million project, formerly called the Shoreline Gateway, was designed by San Francisco-based …

LONG BEACH, CA—AndersonPacific LLC and Ledcor Properties Inc. will begin construction of the Current, a 17-story luxury apartment development in Long Beach, CA, on March 21 with a ground-breaking ceremony. The $70 million development is the first ground-up high-rise apartment complex to be built in the city since the recession and possibly longer.

The Current apartment tower, previously dubbed the Shoreline Gateway, is set to break ground this Friday and will welcome Long Beach’s first high-rise apartment complex in over a decade. Located at the intersection of Ocean and Lime-its address will formally be 707 East Ocean-the $70M, 17-story design was ten years in the making after the property was purchased by AndersonPacific …