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I am looking for a resource or some hints on why the two normed spaces $\ell_\infty$ and $L_\infty$ belong to the family $\mathcal{B}_1$, that is,
they are of the family of Banach spaces $X$ such that for any Banach space $X'$ containing $X$ there is a projection $P$ from $X'$ to $X$ such that $\lVert P\rVert\leq 1$.

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I think the general fact is that $\mathcal{B}_1$ consists of precisely the Banach spaces (isometrically isomorphic to) the spaces $C(X)$ for $X$ extremally disconnected and compact. In particular, every $L^\infty$ space will belong to $\mathcal{B}_1$. See Projection constants and spaces of continuous functions by Isbell and Semadeni for references.

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