The bayside residential area called La Playa lies somewhat north of the original La Playa, the beach where commercial and military ships anchored during the early days of the city.
There's a decent combination of public beaches and commercial ones, with sunloungers for hire.
They set up a local government to protect pristine beaches from commercial development.
Out of Cuba's dozen or so top-flight courses, only one survived the revolution – that of the Varadero Golf Club, in Cuba's most commercial beach resort.
The traveler who leaves behind the strip malls that line the highways won't encounter anything remotely resembling the commercial beach strips of chain restaurants, gas stations and souvenir stands found elsewhere along the Eastern Seaboard.
Local people are upset at another proposal, to require commercial beach activities to end on Sept. 1 every year — still the high season — rather than sometime in October, and to allow new businesses that build behind the restored dune 10-year operating permits.
Public money has surged toward the waterfront, restoring beaches, boardwalks and commercial districts in remarkably short order.
When Yuri tricks a tall, gorgeous model (Bridget Moynahan) into meeting him, Niccol gives the meeting the gleaming feel of a beach-side rum commercial, and the scene is soon followed by a white-on-white wedding overlooking Central Park.
There are residential neighborhoods along oceanfront beaches with dense commercial and residential areas along the coastline, an important harbor with industrial activities along the estuary with stretches of coastal marshland and mangroves (Afonso 2006; Young 2010).
In areas where the search for oil is underway whales and dolphins are beaching regularly, and commercial fish populations can be reduced by half.
It's a one-stop-shopping beach with lots of commercial activity, but still never seems crowded.
