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A website called The Island of Long Beach is promoting a huge 'shopping, dining and entertainment district" around the Queen Mary and promising to create 300,000 jobs. The website calls it "the largest project in history." Only thing is, a city official in Long Beach claims to know nothing about it and the first media to report on it, LB Report.com, calls it a mystery site put by a company with a Riverside address. The site does claim to be a member of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, and some of the links suggest that it's all about commerce of the, um, online kind. I'm sure someone down there will figure it all out.
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