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Marina del Rey (Spanish for “Marina of the King”) is an unincorporated seaside community in Los Angeles County, California, with an eponymous harbor that is a major boating and water recreation destination of the greater Los Angeles area. The port is North America’s largest man-made small-craft harbor and is home to nearly 5,000 boats. The Place is a popular tourism destination for both estate and water activities such as paddle board and kayak rentals, dining cruises, and yacht charters. Land comings and goings include bicycling upon several bicycle paths, walking paths along the waterfront, and birdwatching (birding). Wildlife watching opportunities total California sea lions and harbor seals. Dolphins and whales occasionally visit the deeper waters of harbor. This Westside locale is nearly 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Santa Monica, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Los Angeles International Airport, and 12.5 miles (20.1 km) west-southwest of Downtown Los Angeles.

The port is owned by Los Angeles County and managed by the Department of Beaches and Harbors (DBH), but the waters are environmentally regulated by state organization and federal giving out through their many agencies and departments similar to overlapping oversight. The Los Angeles Times said in a 1997 editorial that the harbor is “perhaps the county’s most indispensable resource”. The population was 11,373 at the 2020 census. For statistical purposes, the United States Census Bureau has defined Marina del Rey as a census-designated place (CDP). The census definition of the area may not precisely come to an understanding to local promise of the area with the thesame name; for example, the 90292 ZIP code includes everything of Marina del Rey and portions of against Los Angeles, such as Del Rey, and has a population of 21,576, more than double that of the CDP. Many residents of the 90292 ZIP code consider themselves to living in Marina del Rey even if they truly live uncovered the ascribed boundaries of the CDP.

History

Prior to its money going on front as a small-craft harbor, the estate occupied by Marina del Rey was a salt marsh fed by light water from Ballona Creek. The area was frequented by the Tongva, who used plank boats known as te’aats to traverse the waters and paddle out to the Channel Islands. Fishing and shellfish harvesting were common. The village of Guashna was a major regional trade middle between villages on the islands and the mainland.

With the increasing initiation of European settlers, in the mid-19th century, Moye C. Wicks thought of turning this estuary and wetland of Playa del Rey into a commercial port. He formed the Ballona Development Company in 1888 to develop the area, but three years superior the company went bankrupt. The Place became frequented by duck hunters, including their hunting club, as capably as by birdwatchers of the Los Angeles Audubon Society and the southern chapter of the Cooper Ornithological Club. Burton W. Chace, a former councilman of the City of Long Beach, who higher became a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, referred to the area as mud flats, though today the Place would more properly be referred to as an estuary and wetland.

Port Ballona made by Louis Mesmer and Moye Wicks was then sold to Moses Sherman. Sherman purchased 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land not far-off off from the Ballona lagoon and Port Ballona in 1902 under the post the Beach Land Company. Sherman and Clark renamed the land “Del Rey”. Port Ballona was later renamed Playa Del Rey. The harbor was serviced by the California Central Railway opened in September 1887, this line sophisticated became the Santa Fe Railway, that far ahead became the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad. The rail extraction ran from the port to Redondo junction. A street car tram descent was made to the Port by the Redondo and Hermosa Beach Railroad company, that had incorporated on February 21, 1901. This company was allowance of the Los Angeles Pacific Railroad owned by Sherman. The tram line opened December 1902 departed downtown at 4th & Broadway.

In 1916, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers revisited the idea of a commercial harbor, but stated it economically impractical. In 1936 the U.S. Congress ordered a re-evaluation of that determination, and the Army Corps of Engineers returned past a more appreciative determination; however, the Marina del Rey port concept drifting out to San Pedro as a commercial harbor and money in the works front funding went to the Port of Los Angeles instead.

In 1949, the Army Corps of Engineers submitted an elaborate $23 million point toward for a marina with mooring publicize for beyond 8,000 small-craft boats. In 1954, President Eisenhower signed Public Law 83-780, authorizing the examination of the launch of the Marina as a federal project. After seven years of legislative wrangling, Public Law 87-402 renamed the Playa Del Rey Inlet and Harbor as Marina Del Rey, implicitly enshrining the endorsement of the project into law.

Ground breaking began tersely after, during the to the lead years of the John F. Kennedy administration.

With construction on the subject of complete, the marina was adjoin danger in 1962–1963 due to a winter storm. The storm caused millions of dollars in broken to both the haven and the few little boats anchored there. A aspire was put into effect to construct a breakwater at the mouth of the marina, and the L.A. County Board of Supervisors appropriated $2.1 million to build it. On April 10, 1965, Marina del Rey was formally dedicated. The total cost of the dock was $36.25 million for land, construction, and initial operation.

Los Angeles County then solicited bids for the harbor and port development, selling 60 year leaseholds to in accord developers. Real home developer Abraham M. Lurie was the single largest leaseholder liable for the building of three hotels, two apartment complexes, 1,000 boat slips, and several shopping centers, offices, restaurants; his holdings as a consequence included the last undeveloped fragment of waterfront home in Marina del Rey. He eventually ran into cash flow problems and sold a 49.9% interest to Saudi Arabian Sheik Abdul Aziz al Ibrahim, a brother of Waleed bin Ibrahim Al Ibrahim and a brother-in-law of King Fahd; the investment soon turned biting and with a protracted and gruff lawsuit, in 1993 Lurie directionless his entire captivation in the progress to Abdul Aziz.

Geography

Marina del Rey falls within unincorporated Los Angeles County and is southeast of Venice and north of Playa del Rey, near the mouth of Ballona Creek. The port and port is located four miles (6 km) north of Los Angeles International Airport.

The port and the unincorporated residential and issue community of Marina del Rey is bounded on everything sides by the city of Los Angeles. The beach-style homes, on the inner part of the coastal strand and the beach (see photo), west of the harbor, are within the city limits of Los Angeles, but part the same zip code as Marina del Rey. The say of this coastal strand that surrounds an estuarine inlet known as the Ballona Lagoon Marine Preserve is called the Marina Peninsula. The city street, Via Dolce, forms the boundary amongst Los Angeles and the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County, known as Marina del Rey.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Marina del Rey has an area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km). Nine-tenths of a square mile (2.2 km²) is land and 0.6 square miles (1.6 km) is water (40.91%).

One of the highest and tallest buildings in Marina del Rey is the large high-rise condominium building known as “The Admiralty High-Rise” or clearly AHR. AHR is a large condominium complex, having three credited names: Azzura condos, Regatta condos, or The Cove. AHR has a culmination of nearly 170 feet (50 m), 20 floors and can home a maximum of nearly 2,500 people (800 condominiums) which is regarding 30% of the population of Marina del Rey. AHR is located across Admiralty Way from the harbor and has a proficient green-aquamarine color. It was built in 2003. AHR, or specifically The Cove, was the main location in the 2010 film Skyline.

The specially designed harbor has many kinds of moorings similar to significant paste pilings for pleasure craft and large boats, including Catalina Island multi-passenger ferry boats, a large whale watching ship as skillfully as a pelagic seabird watching boat, commercial fishing boats, harbor cruise ships, a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Ship, LA County Fire Department and Sheriff Department boats, and is amongst high-rise condos, hotels, apartments, shops, and restaurants. The Place also includes the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, the UCLA Marina Aquatic Center, and the Loyola Marymount University boathouse.

The community is served by the 3-mile-long (4.8 km) Marina Freeway (State Route 90), which associates Marina del Rey directly to Interstate 405 and user-friendly Culver City.

The Place codes of Marina del Rey are 310 and 424. Its ZIP code is 90292.

Climate

Demographics

2010

The 2010 United States Census reported that Marina del Rey had a population of 8,866, of whom 80% are White (75% Non-Hispanic White), 8% Asian, 8% Hispanic or Latino, and 5% African American. Marina del Rey had a median household income of $95,248, with 9.9% of the population living under the federal poverty line.

Arts and culture

Points of interest

Public libraries

The County of Los Angeles Public Library operates the Lloyd Taber-Marina del Rey Library. The library has a nautical addition to serve small boaters in the area. The Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library is in Venice.

Parks and recreation

Burton Chace Park hosts community festivals such as the Marina del Rey Summer Concert Series and the Marina del Rey Holiday Boat Parade.

Yvonne B. Burke Park was renamed from the native Admiralty Park in 2009 to tribute longtime Los Angeles County Supervisor Yvonne Brathwaite Burke. This linear park was built upon the former Venice–Inglewood Line Pacific Electric right-of-way.

Marvin Braude Bike Trail wends through Burke Park toward Oxford Basin, which is a wildlife habitat Place with a pedestrian loop. Nearby Ballona Lagoon on Marina Peninsula afterward has a walking loop and wildlife viewing stations.

Aubrey E. Austin Park is a very small park.

Marina Beach, aka Mother’s Beach, has a playground upon the sand.

Area A of the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, located adjoining Fiji Way, is accessible to the public for limited hours Wednesday through Saturday.

Marina Del Rey Wetland Park is a 0.75-acre (3,000 m) park and wildlife Place that is share of Ballona watershed ecosystem; the tidal salt marsh was refurbished in 2017 by L.A. County. Improvements included restoring a “degraded wetland” and installing “public walking paths, observation areas and educational signage.” The street house is 4390 Via Marina, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 at Via Marina and Tahiti Way. Public parking for visitors is welcoming in MDR parking lot number 11 at the corner of Via Marina and Panay Way. The park is managed by Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors.

Government

Marina del Rey is managed by the Los Angeles County Department of Beaches and Harbors. All of the area’s home is owned by the County of Los Angeles, which issues long-term leases.

Marina del Rey is in the Second District of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, represented by Holly Mitchell.

In the California State Legislature, Marina del Rey is in the 24th Senate District, represented by Democrat Ben Allen, and in the 61st Assembly District, represented by Democrat Tina McKinnor.

In the United States House of Representatives, Marina del Rey is in California’s 36th congressional district, represented by Democrat Ted Lieu.

Education

Marina del Rey is in the Los Angeles Unified School District, although there are no schools in the Place proper. Students from Marina del Rey attend either Anchorage Street Elementary (now Westside Global Awareness Magnet School) or Coeur d’Alene Avenue Elementary School, Marina del Rey Middle School, and Venice High School.

Infrastructure

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has a substation in Marina del Rey. Prior to 1985, maritime and house law enforcement was provided by the Los Angeles County Harbor Patrol, a disaffection of the Department of Small Craft Harbors. The Harbor Patrol was compound into the Sheriff’s Department next sworn Harbor Patrol officers becoming Deputy Sheriffs.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) serves Marina del Rey and is based at Station #110, a part of Battalion 1, at 4433 Admiralty Way. The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services has an office in Marina del Rey.

Transportation

The Marina Expressway, California State Route 90, terminates at Lincoln Boulevard (California State Route 1) in northeastern Marina del Rey and connections the Place with Culver City. A water shuttle service, the WaterBus, operates upon select days during the summer months.

Bus shuttle services operate on the roads within the haven and between the easily reached sites of Playa Vista, and the Venice Pier.

Street layout

Washington Boulevard bounds the Marina to the northwest, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Ballona Creek to the southeast, and Lincoln Boulevard to the northeast. Within those boundaries, Marina del Rey separates into two positive regions, the harbor area and the suburban area.

The harbor area has eight basins on bad terms by six strips of land, each of which has at least one street upon it. From the northeastern terminate of the Marina, going clockwise, these streets are: Bali Way, Mindanao Way (with west terminus at Burton Chace Park), Fiji Way (bordering the southeastern edge of the Marina), Bora Bora Way, Tahiti Way, Marquesas Way, Panay Way, and Palawan Way. Panay Way, Marquesas Way, Tahiti Way, and Bora Bora Way are all on the western side of the Marina and whatever terminate at Via Marina, which in incline terminates at Washington Boulevard. Palawan Way is also upon the west side, but it terminates directly to Washington Boulevard east of Via Marina. On the east side, Bali Way ends at Lincoln Boulevard, Fiji Way ends at the Marina Freeway and Mindanao Way turns into Short Avenue in Los Angeles after crossing Alla Road. Admiralty Way lies north of the port and forms an arc that intersects the roads that help to either Washington Boulevard or Lincoln Boulevard.

The suburban Place bounded by Admiralty Way to the south, Washington Boulevard to the west and Lincoln Boulevard to the east consists mostly of homes and apartments and is referred to by the genuine estate industry as the Golden Triangle.

Notable people

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