The Port of Los Angeles’s gearing up for a major overhaul over at the Ports O’ Call that will have it looking a lot like San Francisco’s famed wharf, but that’s not the only enormous change coming to LA’s waterfront. It’s been a while since we heard from the massive marine reseaerch campus headed for City Dock No. 1, an out-of-use, 100-year-old pier. Today, we have a wealth of new renderings for the Gensler-designed research and education center, and information on just how soon we can expected to see the beginnings of this transformational project at the Port.