Just days after announcing that part of the future West Harbor footprint will open for temporary uses and events this summer, the San Pedro Fish Market already was making headway Monday, May 1, on getting set up for what will be its first temporary location.
Tables, benches and other infrastructure was going in quickly at the southern portion of what West Harbor is calling the North Park section of its future development.
“It’s about 100 yards from where our San Pedro Fish and Crusty Crab locations were (in the former Ports O’ Call Village),” said Michael Ungaro, CEO of the popular family-owned business that was forced to close March 2 to make way for permanent West Harbor construction.
The Fish Market is aiming to reopen in time for Mother’s Day.
But after that, in just a few months, the restaurant will shift again to a more permanent (but still temporary) spot on the same parcel but closer to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum to the north and still on the waterfront.
Negotiations are ongoing with West Harbor to secure a permanent space, which likely would be at what’s being called Building C, in the middle of the linear development that will stretch all along the waterfront.
Los Angeles City Councilmember Tim McOsker said his staff, along with Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn’s office, have been “working hard to make sure that this iconic part of the harbor continues to be available on the waterfront,” McOsker said.
Talks with West Harbor developers, McOsker said, are showing progress.
For the market, the push is on to be running once again on San Pedro’s waterfront as quickly as possible.
“We plan to be open (in the first spot) with a little over 300 seats the second week of May,” Ungaro said. The restaurant’s menu-favorite, the “World Famous Shrimp Trays,” will be served out of fully self-contained mobile kitchens, he added.
The kitchens have been tested at the restaurant’s interim spot at Brouwerij West near…
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