Under an agreement with the Bruces, Los Angeles County will lease the beach, which houses a lifeguard training facility, at an annual rent of $413,000 plus all operation and maintenance costs. The county also maintains the right to outright buy the land for up to $20m. “This is the deed right here,” Derrick Bruce said at the ceremony. “And this means a great deal to us because our forbearers struggled greatly to accumulate enough wealth to buy land here in this Manhattan Beach.”