Long Beach to consider hiring a new contractor to finish Alamitos concessions

The Long Beach City Council this week volition see hiring a caller contractor to decorativeness rebuilding the Alamitos Beach concession basal aft the existent 1 missed aggregate deadlines, according to a unit report.

The assembly volition ballot connected Tuesday, Oct. 19, to o.k. a takeover agreement, which would let Long Beach to unit Nationwide Mutual Insurance, the archetypal contractor’s bonding company, to find a caller contractor to decorativeness the project, which has already been delayed aggregate times.

The Public Works Department and the existent contractor could not instantly beryllium reached.

The $9 cardinal task to rebuild the Alamitos Beach installation began successful 2019 and was primitively expected to beryllium finished successful April 2020.

But the coronavirus pandemic and different delays slowed the work.

The metropolis spent overmuch of 2020 rebuilding and upgrading stands crossed Long Beach, peculiarly those astatine Granada Launch Ramp and Junipero Beach — adjacent adding caller play equipment. The concession stands are meant to service caller nutrient and drinks to beachgoers, but the companies chosen to run those facilities haven’t finished tenant improvements. Some concession income and rentals person begun extracurricular the buildings.

The stands astatine Mother’s Beach, Junipero Beach and Bay Shore Beach were completed earlier this year.

The the two-story Alamitos Beach concession basal was expected to beryllium finished by precocious August, a metropolis unit study said. It’s inactive not ready.

The metropolis has since determined the contractor was incapable to implicit the project. The concessionaire, The Gaucho Grill, inactive has tenant improvements to implicit arsenic well.

The task is present expected to beryllium finished by aboriginal adjacent year, the city’s unit study says, but first, Long Beach whitethorn request a caller contractor. Several components, including an elevator to the 2nd floor, are 80% to 90% complete, the unit study says.

Staff writer Harry Saltzgaver contributed to this report.