waterfront
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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. 1, 2026
In 2021, the star staked out an East Coast perch, picking up a Brooklyn waterfront condo in the stunning Quay building, the New York Post reported.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
It started regaining some lost ground that decade as developers set out to revive the waterfront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Amazon Music and A.I.-focused ecommerce startups Queen One and Autonomous Technologies all set up shop at a Williamsburg waterfront building with floor-to-ceiling glass windows.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
Out the window, Jackson could see straight down the street to the waterfront.
From "I Survived the Great Alaska Earthquake, 1964" by Lauren Tarshis
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It sparked a craze where people flocked to places like parks, waterfronts and shopping malls in the hope of catching Pokémon.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
“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
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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