The rooftop deck of the Kress Lofts will be available for viewing as part of the tour.
Loft-style living and entertaining will benefit abused and neglected children on Saturday, Oct. 24 from 4pm to 8pm when Kress Building loft owners open their homes for a tour and their rooftop deck to recording artist Eddie Gip Noble’s smooth jazz and R&B sounds, while attendees enjoy the food and wine of Pine Avenue. The event will benefit the nonprofit organization For the Child, a child-abuse treatment agency.
“It has been a really tough year for our children and families, and more and more are seeking help. We need the community’s support to ensure these children get the help they need to go on to healthy and productive lives,” said For the Child Executive Director Dr. Michele Winterstein.
The Kress Building offers innovative, New York loft-style living in a restored 1923 building, which was originally designed by Thomas Franklin Power, the architect of Loyola Marymount University’s “new” campus in the Pico Heights district and St. Bartholomew’s church in Long Beach, as well as dozens of historic churches and high schools throughout Los Angeles.
The lofts are conversions of the old department store in downtown Long Beach into condominiums with brick walls, exposed wooden rafters, massive concrete columns and steel I-beams. The exterior of the building was so carefully restored to its original classic Italian Renaissance design that the city designated the building a historic landmark. New metal and glass penthouses make an addition to the skyline that is recognizable from miles away. The rooftop deck offers views of downtown and the ocean.
Pianist and keyboardist Eddie Gip Noble, a music veteran of both the jazz and rhythm ‘n’ blues scenes for the last three decades, has released his debut album Love T.K.O., titled after the hit he wrote for a Teddy Pendergrass album.
Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online at www.forthechild.org or by calling (562) 422-8472.
