Long Beach Port HQ Move May Come By Year’s End
The Port of Long Beach, which for years has tried to find a new location to replace its crumbling headquarters, but saw it’s the momentum stalled last year by a board stalemate, could move its administrative offices to an interim location by the end of 2011, according to officials.The current seven-story headquarters is located on the outskirts of the port’s confines, but the new offices could be located outside the port.“We’re looking primarily in downtown Long Beach, but we’re not limiting the field,” Doug Thiessen, the port’s managing director of engineering, revealed during the harbor commission’s March 12 business meeting.“We’d prefer to keep all the employees in one building, but if we had to break them in different locations, what would be the drive time to and from the port facilit...