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Superblock taking shape Completion of condo, apartment buildings expected in late 2024 home to two nine-story condo buildings with 200 units, and a 10-story building with 200 apartEarly signs that there will one ments. The developer’s plans day be life on Long Beach’s also call for a boardwalk-level Superblock are just becoming swimming pool and plaza and visible. 6,500 square feet of restaurant Parts of what will be a two- and commercial space. story garage with “We are on sched1,100 parking spaces ule in meeting our have been constructconstruction mileed in recent weeks. stones thanks in Since early fall, conpart to close coordistruction crews have nation with Long driven 2,300 piles Beach City of fi into the ground top cials,” Jon Weiss, an support of the founEngel Burman partdation of the buildner, wrote in an ings. email earlier this Each day, yellowweek. “As a result, jacketed work crews JoN wEISS our sewer infraare at the site, revstructure work is Partner, ving up machinery well along and it will to keep the project Engel Burman not only serve our moving at the 6.5development but acre site. strengthen the city’s For four decades, barrier ability to provide this crucial island residents have grown and essential service.” accustomed to a vast empty lot That is a key component of adjacent to the boardwalk, the project. Crews are installing between Long Beach and River- a new sewer line to connect 438 side boulevards. The Garden condos and apartments in the City-based developer Engel Bur- city to Long Beach’s sewer sysman says that by late 2024, the tem. Riverside Boulevard, from $369 million project — the larg- East Walnut Street to just south est single development in the of Park Avenue, is closed. Work city’s history — will be complet- will take place on other sections ed. Long Beach will then be Continued on page 4
By JAMES BERNSTEIN jbernstein@liherald.com
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NICk oRICCHIo, wHo’S originally from Salerno, Italy, has cut hair in Long Beach for 60 years.
At 80, still buzzing and clipping
‘Nick the Barber’ has been at Majestic since 1962 By BRENDAN CARPENTER bcarpenter@liherald.com
Over the decades, hairstyles have changed — from crew cuts to flat tops to locks that hung down to the shoulders, and even lower. But through it all, the barber behind the chair at Majestic Barber Shop, on Park Avenue, has remained the same. Nick Oricchio, now 80, has been cutting hair, trimming moustaches and clipping beards in Long Beach for 60 years and, he said last week, his barbering days are nowhere near over. “I’ve gotten a lot of new customers over the years,” Oricchio said. “I have the best custom-
ers in the world. Why? Because I treat them with respect. Sometimes you succeed with people and sometimes you don’t, but I don’t take anything for granted.” His skill with scissors and combs dates to his youth in Salerno, Italy, where he was raised. After school, other kids would play and wrestle, but young Nick wanted none of that. His father, a carpenter, told him to “pick up what you want to do for the rest of your life.” He decided he wanted to be a barber. “I started training at a barbershop in Italy,” Oricchio recalled. “My boss’s name was Benjamin Frussu. After about two years, I learned how to do the Continued on page 4
e are on schedule in meeting our construction milestones.