(Client: Clifford Beers Housing)

The Long Beach Housing Development Company, nonprofit developer Clifford Beers Housing, Inc. and the office of Councilmember Patrick O’Donnell hosted the grand opening of the new “scatter site” housing complex, The Courtyards in Long Beach, on May 19. The $12.8 million Courtyards project includes rehabilitated courtyard-style apartment properties at 1134 Stanley Ave., 1027 Redondo Ave., 1045 Redondo Ave. and 350 E. Esther St. The project provides 44 studio-style units catered t6 low-income and homeless individuals with mental illness.

Pictured, front row, from left: Julia Moore, Community Housing Management Services; Sally Lang, Wells Fargo Bank; Patrick Ure, Long Beach Housing Development officer; Anna Ulaszewski, board member for The Long Beach Housing Development Company; Frankie Watson, Courtyards resident; Yolanda Christian, Courtyards resident; Pat West, Long Beach City Manager; Crystal Wong, Egan Simon Architecture; Fabiola, Egan Simon Architecture; Sarah White, senior project manager with Clifford Beers Housing, lnc., and James Bonar, executive director of Clifford Beers Housing. Middle row, from left: Jacqueline Wagooner, Enterprise Community Loan Fund; David Howden, Corporation for Supportive Housing; Reina Turner, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health; Dr. Marvin J. Southward, director of Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health; Patrick O’Donnell, 4th District councilmember for the City of Long Beach; Norma Lopez, Long Beach Development project manager; Dave Pilon, president of Mental Health America of Los Angeles; and Lance Simon, Egan Simon Architecture. Back row, from left: Gary Sycalik, KDG Development and Construction Consulting; John Bohling, Westport Construction, Inc.; John Egan, Egan Simon Architecture; John Howell, Egan Simon Architecture; ond Potrick Brown, choir of The Long Beach Housing Development Company. (Long Beoch Business Journol photogroph by Carlos Delgado)