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Article: Condo plan would bring more walkways to Huntington Beach.(Up Front)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 6, 2004
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A stroll down Main Street in Huntington Beach is fun, but it's over almost as soon as it begins.
The street's trademark surfwear shops and coffeehouses make up just a brief half-mile stretch alongside Pacific Coast Highway.
Paul Makarechian, a boyish-faced developer with enthusiasm to spare, wants to expand Surf City's downtown by turning a 31-acre dirt lot near Main Street into parks, shops, restaurants, a hotel and 516 condominiums.
The development, dubbed Pacific City, would fill a downtown void by linking Main Street with the area's big hotels: the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa and the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort.
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