waterfront

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Editorial note

Presumably this is what will happen to the entirety of the Central Waterfront from Mission Bay to Candlestick point.

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The land alongside a body of water.

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noun

The land alongside a body of water.

noun

The dockland district of a town.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for waterfront.

noun

The land alongside a body of water.

noun

The dockland district of a town.

Example sentences

Presumably this is what will happen to the entirety of the Central Waterfront from Mission Bay to Candlestick point.

SF's Embarcadero fell down in an earthquake and they wisely didn't rebuild it, which then created a desirable waterfront.

Thew new project seems like it has more in common with an OMA (Rem Koolhaas) competition entry than the waterfront.

Marseilles is of course a port city, so I wonder if he found some inspiration along the waterfront.

There is already incentive to use structures like this in cities limited by waterfront.

I really don't feel like it, but I am going to walk to the park/bridge/waterfront and back.

Maybe having residential buildings at the waterfront in the middle of a super-densely populated mega city just isn't a good use of the space.

I think a city's relationship with its waterfront has to do with what was built on land next to the water.

We, the family of five, went bicycling along Vancouver's waterfront today.

A rare visionary would look at a 1950 industrial waterfront or tenement neighborhood and see a valuable public resource that the public needed to be connected with.

You can obviously point to activity in places like the Mission and Bernal Heights, but at least some of the demand for unbuilt SF waterfront condos is going to go to the Oakland waterfront rather than something more inland.

Then you have old money in SF organizing political groups to block building on the water front so their waterfront condo views will not be block and so on.

Quote examples

>"I really don't feel like it, but I am going to walk to the park/bridge/waterfront and back.

But apparently the place wasn't abandoned: "the reopening of the embassy on the Malecón waterfront in Havana, previously used as an interests section, a limited diplomatic outpost, ".

At the camp I worked on, you not only had to worry about actual drownings, but also administrators who would try and "steal" a kid about once a week from unobservant counsellors, then call a waterfront drill where all the lifeguards on staff had to search the entire waterfront for a "missing" camper.