As of September 2026, West Harbor is partially open. Six businesses are operating on the 42-acre San Pedro waterfront site, along with the public promenade and Berth 77 Park. Fifteen more are listed on the developer’s directory as slated for tenancy but not yet open, including the 6,200-seat amphitheater, the observation wheel and the permanent San Pedro Fish Market building. The developer has described full opening as “end of this year, early next.”
That gap between what is open and what has been announced is the thing worth understanding, because most coverage of West Harbor describes the finished project rather than the current one. Here is what is actually there today.
What is West Harbor?
West Harbor is a waterfront development on the site of the former Ports O’Call Village in San Pedro, built by San Pedro Public Market LLC under a 66-year ground lease with the Port of Los Angeles. The developer puts total investment at roughly $500 million and the site at 42 acres, with about 300,000 square feet of leasable space and a one-mile waterfront promenade. Construction began in November 2022.
An earlier figure of $150 million circulates in older coverage. That came from the Port in October 2021 and has been superseded. The current developer figure, used consistently across releases in June 2025, December 2025 and January 2026, is $500 million.
What is open at West Harbor right now?
Six tenants appear on the developer’s own directory marked open, verified on September 10, 2026:
- San Pedro Fish Market: operating as a pop-up on the waterfront. The permanent building is a separate, larger project that has not opened.
- Starbucks: open daily, 6am to 8pm.
- Harbor Concessions: desserts and snacks.
- Wheel Fun Rentals: bike and surrey rentals, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, 10am to sunset.
- Harbor Breeze Cruises: whale watching and harbor cruises, Friday through Monday.
- Los Angeles Maritime Institute: tall ships and year-round youth programs, including monthly sunset sails.
Alongside those, Berth 77 Park and an expanded stretch of the promenade are open, running from Berth 84 Park south. The promenade is the part of the project most people can actually use today, and it connects to the Port’s separately funded public walkway system.
What is slated for tenancy but not yet open?
Fifteen entries on the directory are marked coming soon. On the food and drink side: Yamashiro (the first satellite of the Hollywood restaurant), Mike Hess Brewing and Distilling, Glass Box, Tacos El Franc, Parana Empanadas, LoZio Pizza, Mario’s Butcher Shop and Delicatessen, Carne, Freska Bar and The Baked Bear.
On the attractions side: the West Harbor Amphitheater, West Harbor Park and Wheel, Hopscotch (an immersive art gallery), The King of Padel (padel and pickleball courts) and a membership dog park.
One detail worth noting, because it shows how a project of this length actually moves: several tenants announced in earlier press releases no longer appear on the developer’s current directory. Poppy + Rose, Pitfire Pizza, Marufuku Ramen, Olala Crepes, The Win-Dow, King and Queen Cantina, Miller Butler, Coffee with Creme and Sugar, and Oakberry Acai were all named in 2024 and 2025 announcements and are not listed today. That is not proof any of them withdrew, and lineups on multi-year projects change routinely. It is a reason to treat any tenant list as a snapshot rather than a promise, including this one.
When does the rest of it open?
No fixed date has been published. The most recent primary statement came from the developer to CBS Los Angeles on July 13, 2026, describing full opening as “end of this year, early next.” Phase 2 leasing was announced in November 2024 covering more than 125,000 square feet, and a further 10,000-plus square feet across six food and beverage concepts was announced on December 9, 2025, described then as “coming to life over the next few months.”
The financing side is settled enough to matter: West Harbor announced a $61.5 million refinance on February 13, 2025 specifically to support completion, and Carrix joined as an investor in June 2025. This is a project with capital behind it and a long lease term, not a stalled one. It is simply taking longer than the announcement cycle suggests.
Has the amphitheater opened?
It has hosted one public event but is not yet operating a concert season. The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners certified the revised environmental impact report on June 27, 2025, authorizing expansion of the venue from 500 to 6,200 seats. Nederlander Concerts will promote, book and operate it. The design puts seating on a 50,000-square-foot lawn with a 22,000-square-foot concessions and restroom building, a stage elevated six feet, and a rooftop viewing bar, at the southern end of the site. The environmental record anticipates roughly 100 paid events a year, generally April through November.
In July 2026 the amphitheater debuted as the home of the Los Angeles FIFA World Cup 26 Fan Zone across four days. Independent reporting on those days described a temporary configuration with a capacity of about 2,500 and matches shown on a large screen, with tickets from $5 to $20 and the final sold out. So the venue has proven it can host a crowd. A booked concert lineup has not been announced by a primary source.
What about the observation wheel?
Approved, not built. The same June 2025 environmental certification covered a 175-foot observation wheel as part of what the developer describes as a boutique amusement park. It appears on the directory as West Harbor Park and Wheel, marked coming soon. Two published descriptions differ on whether 175 feet is the height or the diameter, so treat the specific figure as approximate until the wheel exists.
What is the Port building around it?
This is the part with firm dates, and for anyone watching the area it may matter more than the tenant list.
On August 13, 2026 the Los Angeles Harbor Commission approved $70.2 million in construction contracts, within an $86.4 million total project cost, funded through the Port’s Public Access Investment Plan. The Harbor Boulevard and 22nd Street project adds a 17.5-acre parking area with up to 2,100 stalls, a public restroom, pedestrian walkways to Harbor Boulevard and Miner Street, and a trolley stop. Harbor Boulevard will be widened to two lanes in each direction from S.P. Slip to 22nd Street, with a landscaped pedestrian walkway alongside.
That work begins in November 2026 and is scheduled to complete in January 2028. Phase one of the separate $36 million LA Waterfront Promenade and Town Square project finished around August 2026.
The Port has committed 10 percent of its operating income annually to the harbor communities of San Pedro and Wilmington since 2015, which is the mechanism funding all of this. It is not contingent on West Harbor’s leasing pace.
Why the January 2028 date matters
Because of what happens six months later. The Port of Los Angeles Outer Harbor will host six Olympic sailing events in the 2028 Games: the men’s and women’s dinghy, men’s and women’s skiff, mixed dinghy and mixed multihull classes. LA28 confirmed the venue on June 30, 2025 and designates the harbor as its own zone. We cover the full regional picture in our piece on the 2028 Olympic events in the South Bay. The four board events, windsurfing and kite, are at Belmont Shore in Long Beach. Olympic sailing was last held in this harbor in 1932.
International sailing teams are already here. The former youth camp at Cabrillo Beach now operates as a training center under a nonprofit called Pathway to Podium, on a Port permit approved April 30, 2026 and running through the Games, with $5 million of Port money going into the facility. In July 2026 the San Pedro Olympic Classes Regatta brought about 200 sailors from 34 countries into the harbor, including 35 Olympians.
So the public infrastructure completing in January 2028, the waterfront project finishing somewhere in that window, and an Olympic event arriving in July 2028 are three timelines converging on the same stretch of coastline.
What this means if you are buying or selling in San Pedro
Three practical things.
See it on a weekday. Parts of the waterfront are an active construction zone and will be through 2027. Weekend foot traffic at the promenade does not tell you what a Tuesday morning nearby sounds like, and neither does a listing photo.
Do not price a property on the finished version. The amphitheater is approved and the wheel is permitted, but a 6,200-seat concert venue that has not booked a season is not yet a neighborhood amenity, and it is also not yet a neighborhood traffic and noise question. Both of those become real when it opens. Buying today means buying the current conditions with a known set of approvals attached, which is a different proposition than buying the brochure.
Check the permit path before you write an offer if you intend to change the property. San Pedro has no certified Local Coastal Program (the 1991 Land Use Plan was never certified and is advisory only), and the area sits in a Dual Permit Jurisdiction, meaning some coastal-zone projects need a permit from the City of Los Angeles and a second from the California Coastal Commission. That is a timeline question, not a barrier, and it is answerable in advance.
None of this is a reason to wait. It is a reason to look at San Pedro with the actual dates in hand rather than the announcements, and those dates are now specific enough to plan around.
Tenant and directory status verified against the developer’s published directory on September 10, 2026. Project details change; confirm current status before relying on any figure here.
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