Kennedy’s at the Los Altos Village has a soft opening

 Kennedy’s Craft Kitchen & Cocktails in Los Altos Village has a soft opening

Kennedy's  the new restaurant at the former  E.J. Malloy's Los Altos Village space has now opened.  With a soft opening under COVID rules the restaurant has a limited menu (see below).

The new restaurant is owned by Ian Moston who has had ownership partnerships in Long Beach's Riley's and 908 at the new LBX Mall. 

With a small patio, the restaurant is working on opening a parklet in front of the restaurant.  

UPDATE: The website is now up: KENNDY'S

Los Altos Sears closure announced

 

Los Altos Center's retail prime in the 1990's

Los Altos Village Sears closure  announced

 

Transformco added the Los Altos Village Sears to the original list of 18 store closings issued in January of this year. 

 The Long Beach Sears was one of five  stores added today February 15, 2021 to the January list.  The Long Beach Kmart was on the original list and is currently in the process of liquidating its stock.  The Long Beach Kmart  store currently appears on the SB360 company website. SB360 is contracted to conduct the store liquidations.

Transformco the holding company that acquired the Sears and Kmart assets during the 2018-2019 bankruptcy. Then Sears CEO Eddie Lampert formed Transformco  to bid on the assets stating that the new company would re-invent the iconic merchandiser in a new 21^st Century version.  Since acquiring the asset, Transformco has sold major brand assets including Craftsman, Kenmore and Diehard as well as selling off the real estate of the retail locations that are owned.

The Long Beach Sears will join four other California Sears closures that were announced in January: Clovis, Los Angeles, Orange and Sacramento.  The Long Beach and Big Bear Kmarts were the two California stores on the January list.

The Long Beach Kmart store closure located in the 5th District's Los Altos Gateway Center was originally announced on local social media when employees learned about the closing and their families posted the store was closing.  

Many times new Transformco store closures are discovered from the company's  employment page that announces jobs for store closures.  As of the posting the Long Beach Kmart has listings for store closing cashers.

The Sears building was originally the Long Beach Broadway

Taco Beach downtown closed by the ABC

 

Los Altos Taco Beach remains open after ABC pulls liquor license of the downtown location 

Many in the Greater Los Altos  neighborhood know the owner of Taco Beach and frequent it regularly.  The Los Altos location was one of  three locations. Unfortunately the Downtown Taco Beach was severely damaged in the Downtown riots and never did recover.

Today the second part of the story happened- the ABC pulled the license of the Taco Beach Downtown ( the Los Altos Taco Beach is still open).

Los Altos Taco Beach remains open

Many customers of the Los Altos Taco Beach know that the immediate neighbors have worked to limit the hours and noise from the Los Altos Taco Beach and the owner has not been happy with us. Yes we worked hard to limit the impact on our neighborhood when the establishment was first proposed, and we continue to make sure all the alcohol restrictions are followed.

That said, the establishment has become a good Los Altos neighbor we encourage the neighborhood to support them now more than ever. Our neighborhood will continue to reach out to them when ever we see a problem and over the last few years we have had less and less problems.

Unfortunately that was not the case for the downtown establishment:

LB Post story on Taco Beach:

After string of crime reports, ABC revokes liquor license for Taco Beach in Downtown