Long Beach recently announced another three vacant buildings that will be demolished and torn down and become available for use.

All three sites have been offered up for affordable housing projects, a requirement of the state Surplus Land Act before the city can move to sell them to other bidders. In the meantime, break-ins, vandalism and fires have plagued two of the properties, leading to the city's decision to demolish the existing buildings.

Let's talk about this and see if low income housing is the best use for these properties or other uses might be more appropriate. These other uses would be very neighbor and property dependent.

A new health/wellness center was opened in Cambodiatown. This is the chance for the underselved Cambodian population to get get high quality health and wellness care.

This site will is expected to serve 9,000 individual patients through 28,800 medical, dental and behavioral health visits, and 9,600 social service visits each year. This area is home to the city's vibrant Cambodian population, as well as large Latino and African American populations, which remain critically underserved.

The wellness side will provide intergenerational and cross-cultural healthy cooking classes and health education classes. Let's add technology to that learning.

We all need co-working space. Do you go to your local coffeehouse and keep buying coffee and squat on one of their tables? Or find a reasonable co-working space?

We found the Home Office LLC to be reasonable. Lots of parking. Centrally located. The drawback is that it is strictly 8am to 5pm. But its a start. A bit pricey at $25 per hour.

Long Beach is the perfect place to jumpstart your career.