San Diego-based restaurant and sports bar Dirty Birds is opening a brand-new location in downtown Long Beach, bringing its renowned chicken wings and ‘home away from home’ vibes. The restaurant recently agreed to lease over 3,000 square feet at 200 Pine Avenue, where it will join several retailers and restaurants including Agaves Kitchen & Tequila and Agaves Ultra Lounge in one of the busiest corridors downtown.
Dirty Birds’ newest location will sit two blocks from several prominent government and entertainment venues including city hall, the Billie Jean King Public Library, the county courthouse and the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center. The location is also bolstered by a high vehicle traffic count, which exceeds 20,000 cars per day.
The new location will be Dirty Birds’ sixth in the Golden State, but it will be the first outside of San Diego.
As reported by LA Digs in February, Long Beach has been on a steady rise in recent years. The downtown area has become the place to be for new experiential dining and entertainment concepts including 4th Horseman Pizza, Altar Society Brewing and Coffee and the Dolly Varden Hotel, to name a few.
“Downtown Long Beach is experiencing a major revitalization driven by community-focused events, public space improvements, and increased investment,” David Kim, managing partner at Bascom Group, the owner of 200 Pine Avenue, said in a statement. “Key initiatives include the DTLB Live! Monthly series on the Promenade, the transformation of Pine Avenue, and the inaugural Long Beach Revival Festival, aiming to boost local culture and economic growth.”
Bascom Group renovated the six-story building at 200 Pine back in 2022. The property was erected in 1968 and consists of six stories of office, retail and restaurant space spanning a combined 65,909 square feet. The building also includes a 123-stall parking deck, and has approximately 16,800 square feet of space available, according to a listing in LoopNet.com.
According to the Downtown Long Beach Alliance, a nonprofit group working on behalf of commercial tenants, and residential and commercial property owners, Long Beach has been on a steady upward swing since at least 2024, when it had a development pipeline of more than 5,000 units spread across 33 projects.
A report published last year by the nonprofit said that two of the largest recently completed projects at the time are in the vicinity of 200 Pine Avenue, including the 669-room Breakers Hotel, which officially opened two blocks away in December 2024. That report also noted that the largest planned multifamily development downtown, the 600-unit Alexan West End, is located less than half a mile from the corner of Broadway and Pine Avenue.
The site for the planned Hard Rock Hotel, which will include 427 rooms and 40,000 square feet of retail space across 31 stories, is also located two blocks from Dirty Birds’ new restaurant, just south of the Marriott Long Beach Downtown hotel.
