Port of Los Angeles wins award for highway infrastructure project

SAN PEDRO — The Port of Los Angeles has a lofty list of projects ahead in 2019, but the American Public Works Association’s Southern California Chapter recently granted an infrastructure project top honors. Harbor Boulevard and Plaza Park was recently completed and is now considered a highly innovative design, having won an award for Outstanding Roadway and Highway Project of the Year by Metropolitan Los Angeles Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers. According to a Port of L.A. press release the highway was designed with other projects coming up in the future, such as the San Pedro Public Market, in mind. The release says: “Additional improvements were also made to the adjacent Plaza Park, which overlooks the Port’s Main Channel. Enhancements included extensive slope re-grading, drought-tolerant landscaping, as well as a new lookout deck, decorative lighting and viewing benches. The park will also serve as a walkway linking downtown San Pedro and the future San Pedro Public Market.” In some ways, the complete overhaul of San Pedro’s roadways could be an omen of what’s to come. The release continues: “The Port’s Harbor Boulevard project involved realignment and reconfiguration of a three-street intersection at Harbor Boulevard, 7th Street and Miner Street in San Pedro,...