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Cruise Port Plans Draw Acclaim, Apprehension at Long Beach, Calif., Meeting.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2000 by Higginbotham, Keith
Sep. 6--LONG BEACH, Calif.--Members of the public sounded off to the Port of Long Beach Harbor Commissioners on Tuesday, voicing both concerns and support for a proposed cruise ship terminal in Long Beach.
Expected to draw more than 275,000 tourists to the Queen Mary area each year, the $35 million project will incorporate a Carnival Cruise Lines terminal inside the geodesic dome that once housed the Spruce Goose, a 1,100 foot off-shore pier, a five-story 1,500 space parking structure as well as several other buildings. Construction is expected to begin in early 2001, lasting for just over 13 months.
After completion of the project, ships from Carnival's West Coast fleet, would make three calls a week at the new terminal, each cruise accommodating...
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