Costa Mesa recognized for Harbor Boulevard beautification

Nov. 6, 2015 2:51 PM PT

The city of Costa Mesa was recently recognized by a professional organization for its efforts to improve Harbor Boulevard.

The Southern California chapter of the American Public Works Assn., which has more than 1,400 members, gave the city one of its 2015 Project of the Year awards. It will be presented during a Dec. 9 ceremony in Lakewood.

Costa Mesa’s Harbor Boulevard Beautification Project, funded with help from a $500,000 federal grant made in 2010, included installing new drought-tolerant landscaping and planting more than 100 trees along Harbor, between Adams Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard.

Crews also installed a new city entrance sign with solar-powered lighting at Harbor and MacArthur.

The work, completed throughout 2014, was done by Irvine-based Land Forms Landscape Construction, which also did wetlands restoration in Fairview Park.

Bradley Zint

Bradley Zint left Times Community News in 2018. He was a general assignment reporter for the Daily Pilot, where he worked since 2010. At the Pilot, he also was a copy editor, classical music columnist and reporter covering Costa Mesa and Newport Beach. He previously worked in Hermosa Beach, Long Beach, Alaska and Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach, where he served as editor-in-chief of its campus newspaper, the Daily 49er.