When FIFA's organizers mapped out Los Angeles's official fan zone network for the 2026 World Cup, they could have put the finals broadcast almost anywhere. They picked two venues. One is the Pomona Fairplex. The other is West Harbor, the $500 million waterfront development rising on the former Ports O' Call site at the end of your street.
July 14, 15, 18, and 19 — the two semifinals, the third-place match, and the final — will be streamed live at San Pedro's waterfront while the rest of Los Angeles watches from bars and living rooms. No other coastal neighborhood in the city made that cut. Then, two years later, the 2028 Olympics brings its sailing events to the Outer Harbor. San Pedro is about to get a level of international attention it has not seen in a generation, and the window for locals to get familiar with the space before the crowds arrive is measured in weeks, not months.
Here is what you can do right now, what opens this summer, and what to expect when July arrives.
The Promenade Is Already Open
The northern section of the waterfront promenade is accessible today. The San Pedro Fish Market is operating in its final temporary location at the site — Berth 84, adjacent to the Los Angeles Maritime Museum — before moving into a purpose-built 55,000-square-foot building being constructed to the south, which developers expect to be ready by late 2026. Harbor Breeze Cruises is running departures. Wheel Fun Rentals has Surrey bikes available on weekends from 10 a.m. to sunset. Catalina Tea Bar has set up daily on the promenade.
None of this is the grand opening. The southern section of the site remains closed while construction continues on the main buildings. But the walk is worth making now, before summer changes what that promenade feels like on a Saturday afternoon.
What Opens This Summer, by Name
The majority of restaurants and entertainment venues in Building A are targeted for summer 2026, with remaining tenants rolling out afterward. The tenant list assembled over the past year covers a range that Ports O' Call never approached.
Yamashiro brings its first-ever satellite location from the Hollywood Hills, including a koi pond and skylights inside a 3,000-square-foot patio setup. It has operated from its century-old hilltop building since the early 1960s; this is its only expansion.
Hopscotch, the art gallery and lounge concept, takes 17,000 square feet of interior space plus 2,000 square feet of outdoor area.
Mike Hess Brewing is building a 20,000-square-foot beer garden with a waterfront view deck. The San Diego brewery has never had an L.A. location.
Tacos El Franc, featured on Netflix's Taco Chronicles, makes its Los Angeles debut here. Handmade tortillas, traditional fillings.
Glass Box is a high-concept Asian dining experience originating in San Diego, enclosed in a glass structure, with an open kitchen serving sushi and sashimi, Taiwanese beef noodle soup, and tenderloin steak fried rice. Its first L.A. appearance.
Paraná Empanadas, another San Diego operation, serves Argentine fare including its Malbec beef empanada marinated in Argentinian wine for 24 hours.
LoZio Pizza is a spinoff of Redondo Beach's LoZio Osteria, run by pizzaiolo Marco Aromatario.
The Baked Bear, known for made-to-order ice cream sandwiches, rounds out a tenant list that KTLA reported as 80 percent leased as of mid-2025. Admission to the site is free; parking carries a charge.
The Amphitheater, and Why Nederlander Matters
The 6,200-seat waterfront amphitheater received final approval from the Los Angeles City Council in September 2025 and is on schedule for a summer 2026 opening, with a full concert season planned for 2027. Nederlander Concerts is managing the venue. For context: Nederlander ran booking at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park for years. Bringing that operator to a waterfront site in San Pedro — one with a direct sightline to working container ships and tugboats — is the kind of programming infrastructure that turns a development into a destination.
The first full summer of concerts is 2027. What happens in 2026 is a soft season of grand-opening events and, critically, the World Cup fan zone.
July 14–19: What the Fan Zone Actually Means
Los Angeles designated nine fan zone locations for the 2026 World Cup. Most of them broadcast group stage and round-of-16 matches in June and early July. West Harbor, along with the Fairplex in Pomona, was chosen for something different: the final four matches of the entire tournament.
The official city schedule puts West Harbor on July 14, 15, 18, and 19 for the two semifinals, the third-place match, and the World Cup final. Venice Beach gets one day. Downtown gets a four-day run in late June. The closing weekend of the most-watched sporting event on the planet goes to San Pedro.
The fan zone runs four days of live match broadcasts, sponsor activations, food and beverage from the newly opened tenants, and interactive programming on a waterfront that seats 6,200 in the amphitheater alone. Whether you plan to attend or prefer to stay east of Harbor Boulevard while the crowds clear, July will feel different in this neighborhood than any July in recent memory.
Late 2026 and Beyond
The formal grand opening celebration is scheduled for later in the year, timed to the completion of the 175-foot SkyStar Ferris Wheel, billed as the tallest in California. Pickleball and padel courts, tall ship sailing, and a members-only dog park are also slated for the 2026 build-out, with the Ferris wheel and North Park recreational amenities targeted for completion by year's end.
The San Pedro Fish Market's permanent building — a 55,000-square-foot structure being constructed to the south — is expected to be ready by late 2026, at which point the temporary market location at Berth 84 closes and the institution moves into its new home on the waterfront it has anchored for decades.
The longer arc: in 2028, the Olympics brings sailing events to the Outer Harbor. The Port of Los Angeles is already accelerating a $22 million revamp of Harbor Boulevard — formerly known as Sampson Way — that will add travel lanes, a pedestrian walkway, and landscaping, with construction expected to begin in 2026 and finish in 2027. A 2,300-space parking lot project, estimated at $32 million, is also planned. The infrastructure investment is being driven by the Olympic timeline, not the restaurant openings.
San Pedro has been waiting for West Harbor since the Ports O' Call demolition began. The waterfront is opening into a summer that puts this neighborhood on a global broadcast. The promenade is walkable today. The restaurants arrive in a matter of months. And the July crowd that shows up for the World Cup finals will be discovering a neighborhood that the people reading this post have known for years.
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