Filipinos began migrating to the waterfront city in the 1960s, settling in the Five Corners neighborhood in Journal Square and in more residential neighborhoods in the southwest section.
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Some of them might think that God prefers really, really big houses and then there are those where God wants to drop in on the hired help in the city or on the waterfront depending on the season.
Local businesses also stand to benefit in the waterfront city of about 39, 000 people.
The Clyde corridor regeneration will include both Glasgow's waterfront and the Clyde Gateway, which takes in the city's east end and neighbouring parts of Lanarkshire.
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Other maritime events taking place in the city in 2011 are On The Waterfront, due to be held at the end of July, and The River Festival in September.
Halloween is huge in the city that loves to throw on a mask, while Christmas features numerous fiery festivals along the waterfront, including Celebration in the Oaks, when the colourful lights are festooned around City Park.
Catherine's Hospital in Cite Soleil, a sprawling slum of about a quarter of a million people in the city's waterfront.
Construction is expected to take about 18 months and will complete the corporation's mission to reunite the city with its historic waterfront, focal point for the biggest regeneration project in Europe.
Even in Shanghai, where smoking incurs none of the opprobrium that it does in New York, tobacco advertising has been banned along the waterfront Bund, the city's equivalent of Times Square.
These come on top of the existing regeneration work in Newport, including a new waterfront development alongside the River Usk that flows beside the city centre.
In the city's Takata neighborhood, an area close to the waterfront where many people died, about 100 people gathered for a Buddhist ceremony Sunday morning.
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After taking in the panoramic views of the Cascade Mountain range and downtown Portland, head back down via the Marquam Trail, following the 4T signs to the Portland Aerial tram, where futuristic pods offer a birds-eye view of the city while transporting you 3, 300ft in three minutes, depositing you at Southwest Waterfront Street directly across from the Portland Streetcar, which will take you back downtown.
Forest City Ratner, currently engaged in a vast project for the Atlantic Yards on the Brooklyn waterfront, which includes a basketball stadium for the Nets designed by Frank Gehry, has made token changes in cooperation with community representatives, although questions remain about densities and scale.
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