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Article: PORT SETS SIGHTS ON LANDING TENANTS FOR CRUISE-SHIP SITE.(Business)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 26, 1999
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Top executives of 32 major cruise lines arrive in Seattle for a conference this week, just as Port of Seattle commissioners consider spending as much as $12.7 million to build a cruise-ship terminal.
The cruise-line executives have been arriving in town for mostly closed-door executive and marketing sessions of the Cruise Lines International Association.
And while consideration by port commissioners of alternatives for a cruise-ship terminal at the port's Bell Street Pier complex isn't directly connected to those meetings, the port has made no secret it would like to court at least two of the big cruise lines as future tenants of its Seattle facility.
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