Sentence examples for waterfront industries from inspiring English sources
By this time most waterfront industries had deserted the canal.
Copper magnates, businessmen, entertainers and philanthropists were among those attracted to its palatial homes and thriving waterfront industries, as well as its proximity to Manhattan.
Mr. Kheel, a lawyer who specialized in seeking consensus in union-management wars, was most often spotlighted as a mediator and union adviser in the 1960's and 70's, when he helped settle transit and newspaper strikes in New York as well as labor clashes in the railroad, airline and waterfront industries nationally.
Opening up the far offshore could ease the nation's trade imbalance in fish commerce and rebuild waterfront industries that have slipped away as a result of overfishing, says Dianne Windham, aquaculture coordinator for the West Coast region of the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Since then the nuclear plant is one of several strategic sites it patrols on the Hudson, along with marinas and waterfront industry.
Billions are now being invested in hi-tech industries and waterfront parks.
The port district of Los Angeles that was once dominated by the fishing industry is the focus of major redevelopment activity intended to capitalize on the appeal of the busy industrial waterfront.
"A lot of attention is devoted to Lower Manhattan, but you forget that you have real industries on the waterfront" elsewhere in the city, said Eddie Bautista, executive director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, which represents low-income residents of industrial areas.
Keeping industry on the waterfront improves quality of life, too.
The decline of heavy industry on the waterfront coincided with three decades of violence that made Northern Ireland repugnant to many outside investors.
Since industry left the waterfront, Dumbo — Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass — has variously been a deserted no-man's-land, a haven for artists, a hip loft destination and a target of upscale developers.
