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Mercedes
to base its
regional
office here

OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

Landlord plans
to turn over
52 acres to luxury
automaker
on March 1.

PHOTOS: JOSH MORGAN, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Bill and Donna Sprague take a romantic gondola ride through the canals of Naples for their 20th wedding anniversary.

Residents say they love the areas relaxing,

small-town feel and sense of community.

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community.
Jonathan Schnack, 43,
said he originally was attracted to Naples
when he and his
partner found
the area to be
perfectly situated in between their
workplaces
in Irvine and
Los Angeles.
Schnack has
called Naples home
for about 15 years and says its the
perfect place to live.
A lot of people go to visit Belmont Shore and drive through Naples down Second Street without

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Tom Agee said he woke

up in his Naples home
Thursday morning admiring the canals
from his front
porch.
We
looked out
this morning
and looked at
the canals
and
questioned why
we even had
to leave for
work for the
day, the 66- year-old Naples
resident of about 20 years said.
Nestled between the water and
Second Street in Long
Beach is Naples, a cozy area where residents say
they feel a great sense of

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OF LIFE ON ISLAND
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Rowers glide across Alamitos Bay past

waterfront homes in Naples, below.

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Gondoliers at work and residents
favorite things. Page 8

INSIDE
CYCLE-O-RAMA
Hundreds of motorcycle
enthusiasts descend on
Veterans Stadium.
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TIME TO SHINE
Meet one of the local artists who was awarded an
Arts Council fellowship.
ARTS 6
COMING OUT,
GROWING UP
A transgender teen in Long
Beach talks about his
personal transition.
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Since
Mercedes-Benz
USA announced plans to
lease a 1.1 million-square
foot Boeing plane factory in
July,
the
luxury automaker has
kept
its
plans
for
the former
Long Beach
facility
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tightly
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WRITER
But
an
executive
with Irvine-based SaresRegis Group, which is the
landlord for the 52.2 acres
at 4501 E. Conant St., said
that Mercedes-Benz plans
to use the facility as its vehicle preparation facility and
regional office for the western United States, and as a
training center.
With the exception of the
main airplane hangar, the
fenced-in plant has been
mostly turned into a huge
parking lot with fresh concrete laid along Conant.
Larry Lukanish, a senior
vice president with SaresRegis, also says MercedesBenz will test, inspect, customize and prepare new
cars for transfer to dealerships.
Sares-Regis,
which
bought the property in July
2012, plans to turn the property over to Mercedes-Benz
USA on March 1 to begin a
15-year lease, Lukanish
said.
Chicago-based Boeing
Co. shuttered the facilities
at the corner of Conant and

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