Long Beach Towne Center

Tenants include:

• Retail stores: Walmart, Sam's Club, Barnes & Noble, Ashley Furniture HomeStore, Bob's Discount Furniture, Petsmart, Old Navy, Michaels Stores, IKEA Design Studio, Lowe's
• Restaurants: TGI Fridays, In-N-Out Burger, Chick-fil-A, Lucille's Smokehouse (barbecue), Roadhouse Grill (steakhouse)
• Entertainment: Regal Cinemas, Dave & Buster's[1]

The site was empty until 1960, when the United States Navy opened a military hospital on the site. In 1995, operations were transferred to the Veterans Administration, which closed the hospital and moved patients to the VA Long Beach Healthcare System facility near California State University, Long Beach. After disputes with the city of Lakewood over reuse plans, construction began in 1997 and finished in 1999.[2][3]

In 2019, the center's food court - which had tenants such as Panda Express, Subway, and Wetzel's Pretzels as tenants at various times - was torn down to make way for the arcade/restaurant. It was originally scheduled to open in mid-2020, but work was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Work resumed in the summer of 2021 with an announced opening date of September 26, 2022; however, D&B missed that deadline. It finally opened on October 3, 2022.

In 2021, IKEA announced that it would open a smaller-format, 8,000-square-foot (740 m²) "planning studio" stores in the center,[4] which opened in 2022.[5]