Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, California
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Bixby Knolls is a neighborhood of Long Beach, California.
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[edit] Location
An affluent area of Long Beach nestled between the North Long Beach, California Heights, and Wrigley areas of Long Beach within the 90807 Zip Code. Low end homes in this area start at $600,000 while the higher end homes, a few of which are on gated streets, sell for as much as $3,000,000. To the west of Virginia Country Club is the Los Angeles River bicycle path and the Metro Blue Line.
[edit] Description
The area has a large shopping center and a concentration of retail, restaurants, and small businesses, especially along Atlantic Avenue. The area has long had a large Jewish population, but is increasingly multi-ethnic. The Richard Goad Theater, home to the Long Beach Shakespeare Company, is on Atlantic Bouelevard, near Carson.
[edit] Schools
The two Bixby Knolls public schools, Longfellow Elementary and Hughes Middle School, are nationally-ranked Blue Ribbon Schools.
[edit] Historical Places
Long Beach's Virginia Country Club golf course and Rancho Los Cerritos, a city owned historical site, are located in the adjacent Los Cerritos and Virginia Country Club neighborhoods, sometimes considered a part of Bixby Knolls.
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