waterfront
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Board of Harbor Commissioners allocate a portion of its operating income from the Port of Los Angeles to investments in waterfront public access projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
As for the Port of Los Angeles, the amendment would require the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to annually allocate a portion of the harbor’s operating income to investments in waterfront public access projects.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
In Boca, a waterfront spec house in the exclusive Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club sold for a record $75 million in May.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
For Jourdain Yardan, golfing at the East Potomac Golf Links on Washington DC's waterfront is a twice-weekly ritual.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Come along, lad,” said the Harbormaster, and took him down the waterfront to the pier where Shadow was making ready to sail.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Buyers want to “obtain that coastal lifestyle” for less money than it would cost in other California waterfronts, she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Back then the waterfronts of Port Glasgow and neighbouring Greenock were filled with shipyards.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
“In the next decade, New York’s waterfronts are going to look very different.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Research in recent years has shown that building walls along some waterfronts deflects the water elsewhere, causing damage.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 5, 2022
As the nation baked under the unrelenting sun, and violence spread along the docks and waterfronts of the West, the national political dialogue also grew heated that summer.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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