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The contract for so-called wayfinding signs are intended to help new visitors navigate the downtown. While many business owners have long asked for the signage, some are objecting to the wording of the signs.
Santa Ana chooses a streetcar route and north county prepares for a forum on fracking.
It replaces the controversial tax on property owners that some merchants complained unfairly benefited the restaurant and bar scene.
Facing pressure from successful bar owners in a revitalized
downtown, Santa Ana officials are considering easiing decades-old
restrictions.
The Latino cultural organization, which was recently involved in
an anti-gentrification protest in downtown Santa Ana, will be
without a home as of Wednesday.
Claudia Alvarez apologizes for comparing a Jewish downtown
property owner to Adolf Hitler.
The Anti-Defamation League says Claudia Alvarez engaged in an
“anti-Semitic tirade” against downtown property owner Irving
Chase.
Claudia Alvarez said Irving Chase, who is Jewish, is engaging in
“ethnic clensing” of Latino merchants on downtown Santa Ana’s
Fourth Street.
The husband of the head of Downtown Inc. has been receiving
paychecks from the public agency as an independent contractor,
records show.
The son of downtown land owner Irving Chase says the Latino
nonprofit El Centro Cultural de Mexico was forced from a building
owned by Chase’s father-in-law because of neglect. El Centro
leaders say their ouster is part of a gentrification plan.