Mon. Dec 2nd, 2024

The City of Santa Ana has partnered with a community coalition to make a dream come true for the residents that live around McFadden and Orange. Residents from Eastside, Madison Park, Wilshire and members of the Saint Anne’s Orange County Congregation Community Organization (OCCCO) Committee are working to build a new park on a 1.4 acre open space site owned by the City and immediately next to the beautiful Pacific Electric Bike Trail.

The coalition has named this potential park site, to honor the history of the area, the Pacific Electric Park site. Other organizations involved in the planning of this effort are the Grain Project, Taller San Jose, Casa Guanajato, and the University of California, Irvine’s Community Outreach Partnership Center.

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Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

By Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

2 thoughts on “Build it and they will come…creating the Pacific Electric Park”
  1. It appears that something is finally happening with this park – from the SA Council Agenda 9/16/2014:
    25D. AGMT – LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE CONSULTING SERVICES FOR THE PACIFIC ELECTRIC PARK PROJECT {Strategic Plan No. 6, 1G} – Public Works Agency, Community Development Agency and Parks, Recreation and Community Services

    RECOMMENDED ACTION: Authorize the City Manager and Clerk of the Council to execute an agreement with RJM Design Group, subject to nonsubstantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney, for a one-year period expiring September 15, 2015, in an amount not to exceed $215,500.

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