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
“We realized our members wanted a casual waterfront community where a 21-year-old and an 80-year-old could hang out around a pool bar together,” she added.
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
She called him a “genius” and a “prince” who would put his jacket around her shoulders to protect her from the cold while they shot scenes on the waterfront in Hoboken, N.J.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
In Seattle it reached its climax along the waterfront on July 18.
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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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
In Nashville; Charlotte, N.C., and Tulsa, Okla., city and county governments have successfully enacted effective floodplain zoning, relocating homes and converting waterfronts to public open space.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023
Now, D.C.’s gaze has turned toward our waterfronts, including the Wharf, National Harbor and Washington Harbour in Georgetown, which are job creators and magnets for locals and tourists alike.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 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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