Tensions among artists and business boosters erupt once more. A second meeting is proposed for November.
Tag: Vicky Baxter
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Can Downtown Inc. Mend Fences at Farmers Market Forum?
Santa Ana’s downtown booster organization will attempt to ease resistance from artists and other nonprofit groups at Oct. 7 meeting.
Posted inSanta Ana
What’s Happening With ‘Year for Retail’ in Santa Ana?
Downtown Inc. officials said 2012 would be a year focused on helping the downtown area’s struggling retail stores. For some, it is already too late.
Posted inSanta Ana
Santora Sale Stirs Hope and Worry in Downtown Santa Ana
Some business owners say sale to Irvine-based church will doom the downtown. Others say it will have a positive influence.
Posted inGovernment, Housing & Homelessness, Santa Ana, Transportation
Homelessness Panel Set to Vote on Bus Station Plan
The proposal to convert Santa Ana’s shuttered bus terminal into a year-round homeless shelter will be considered. Santa Ana officials are mounting an effort to stop it.
Posted inSanta Ana
Downtown Inc. Presents Its Case
Santa Ana’s downtown booster organization gave a presentation
designed to counter ongoing criticism of its activities.
Posted inSanta Ana
Santa Ana Councilwoman Compares Downtown Property Owner to Hitler
Claudia Alvarez said Irving Chase, who is Jewish, is engaging in
“ethnic clensing” of Latino merchants on downtown Santa Ana’s
Fourth Street.
Posted inCorrections, Santa Ana
Downtown Inc.’s Mom-and-Pop Shop
The husband of the head of Downtown Inc. has been receiving
paychecks from the public agency as an independent contractor,
records show.
Posted inSanta Ana
Officials: Chivas USA Not Moving to Santa Ana
Business and Soccer Association officials say their lobbying for
the team to move to Santa Ana ended nearly three months ago.
Posted inSanta Ana
Santa Ana’s Downtown Inc. Will Offer No More Help Wooing Chivas USA
The organization that promotes the downtown does not want to be
seen as taking sides in a politically charged issue.
