MONEY SET FOR HARBOR EXPANSION : PORT HUENEME HOPES PARK WILL BRING ALLURE.Byline: Michael Coit Daily News Staff Writer Federal grant money has opened the gates to convert a former Navy lab site into an expanded port and shoreline park Shoreline Park can refer to:
The $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce will pay for demolishing some Navy buildings, improving utilities, and providing for a loop road on the 33-acre site. The work is expected to be completed in about a year, officials said. Port Hueneme boosters envision that the conversion - anticipated since the Naval Civil Engineering Lab was placed on the base closure list in 1993 - will make the city's shoreline park and the deep-water port a Ventura County destination point. The attraction won't be shops and restaurants. The lure instead would be a scenic shoreline, the Coast Guard lighthouse and vista point, and an expanded marine fisheries center. ``We're hoping it will become a visitor attraction,'' said Greg Brown Greg Brown may refer to:
``This kind of project makes the harbor more accessible to the public,'' Brown explained. ``The uniqueness is it's next to the only deep-water harbor between San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . You've got the unique features of the lighthouse, the aquaculture aquaculture, the raising and harvesting of fresh- and saltwater plants and animals. The most economically important form of aquaculture is fish farming, an industry that accounts for an ever increasing share of world fisheries production. facility and the sport fishing and commercial fishing.'' The harbor district will benefit under the joint use venture reached in 1995 by gaining some 21 acres in addition to its existing 65 acres. The Port of Hueneme has doubled cargo tonnage during the past five years and cannot expand for new or existing customers without more space, said Kam Quarles, marketing and trade zone services manager. ``The problem we encounter is the port industry is extremely intensive,'' Quarles said. ``We need more land for new customers. We have some big players here now, but we want to make sure they can expand here, so this land allows them to grow.'' The port, opened in 1937, is a major engine in the county's economy, providing 2,700 jobs and some $300 million in economic activity, officials said. The port exports the most citrus cargo of any in the nation. It also has become an important player in Pacific Rim Pacific Rim, term used to describe the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean and the island countries situated in it. In the post–World War II era, the Pacific Rim has become an increasingly important and interconnected economic region. trade, attracting increasing numbers of international shippers since Del Monte began importing bananas, melons and pineapples in 1979. Primary exports are oranges, lemons, avocados and other farm products. Primary imports are wood pulp wood pulp: see paper. for the Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co. plant in Oxnard, vehicles made by seven manufacturers, and the Del Monte goods. |
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