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O.C. Streetcar Project to celebrates milestones on May 11 in Santa Ana

Posted on May 6, 2015 by Editor Posted in Entertainment, OCTA, Orange County, Santa Ana, Transportation Leave a comment

Simulation of the Santa Ana Streetcar

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 6, 2015

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Joel Zlotnik (714) 560-5713, Eric Carpenter (714) 560-5697

NEWS ADVISORY: OC Streetcar Project Celebrates Milestones

WHAT: Officials from the Orange County Transportation Authority, Santa Ana and Garden Grove will mark important milestones leading toward the construction of the OC Streetcar. Elected leaders and stakeholders will be recognized for their ongoing support of the project and updates will be provided.

The four-mile long streetcar is planned to run from the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center through Downtown Santa Ana and the Civic Center, operating through important employment, restaurant and retail centers along Fourth Street and Santa Ana Boulevard. It will also travel to a new multimodal transit hub at Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue in Garden Grove. The project is planned to be operational by the end of 2019. Continue reading→

Does DTSA’s Top Acid have a license to party?

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Editor Posted in Alcohol, Crime, Music, Planning, Public Safety, Santa Ana 1 Comment

Top Acid is supposedly a vintage clothing store, located on Downtown Santa Ana’s supposed “East End,” which used to be called the “Fiesta Marketplace” until developer/landlord Ryan Chase turned it into a hipster hangout. However my sources tell me they hardly have any clothes for sale.

So what exactly is going on at Top Acid? Well, judging from their Facebook Page and Blog, as well as their Instagram account, it sure looks like what they are really doing at Top Acid is hosting mini-concerts. Continue reading→

Local artist wonders if DTSA has become a whitewashed cultural center

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Editor Posted in Arts and Culture, Ryan Chase, Santa Ana 9 Comments

The Whitewash cultural center

By Theo Hirsch

* Warning – this post has adult language

You know, I have never even met Ryan Chase? And if I did see him in real life, I probably wouldn’t even know the difference unless he introduced himself. Saw him speak at a city council meeting about that stupid train they’re building through 4th st. (BTW, public transportation and the corporate elite forcing us to drive and own cars in order to get by in this stupid So. Cal. Economy, is a whole other rant I could go on and on about for like a hundred pages) one time, but I didn’t get a look at his face as I believe he was sitting in back of me, then he jetted off right after he talked. Continue reading→

Planning Commission to consider the Fourth Street Market’s CUP request on Monday

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Editor Posted in Business, Entertainment, Food, Hipsters, Restaurants, Santa Ana 50 Comments

Fourth Street Market

Santa Ana’s Planning Commission will be considering a request by representatives of the Fourth Street Market for conditional use permits to allow a Type 47 Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) license, after hours operation, and a banquet use in the Specific Development 84 (SD84) zoning district on Monday, August 25, 2014 at 5:30 pm. (Click here to read the Planning Commission agenda).

The Fourth Street Market is the crowning gem of the Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA) gentrifiers. It will be located at 201 East Fourth Street and is owned by Ryan Chase’s East End Partners. What is this development? Well it is a “groovy food hall” – and when it opens it will join five other hipster eating establishments including OC Mix in Costa Mesa, the Anaheim Packing House, the Union Market in Tustin and, by the end of the year, another high-end artisinal food complex in Mission Viejo, according to Orange Coast Magazine.

So far at the Anaheim food hall, the crowds have not let up – though many visitors have complained about the lack of nearby parking, according to the OC Register.

I found a public relations article that had quite a few details about what the Fourth Street Market will look like: Continue reading→

Update 2.0: Who killed the Plaza Santa Ana mural?

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Editor Posted in Alicia Rojas, Arts and Culture, Santa Ana 17 Comments

The artist group Workshop for Community Arts organized eight artists to paint a Plaza Santa Ana mural at the intersection of 4^t^h and French streets by Dec. 13, according to the O.C. Register.

We promoted the WCA’s call for artists in a post we published on Sep 4, 2013

But the mural isn’t going to happen after all – it was killed by the current Acting City Manager of Santa Ana, Carlos Rojas, who is also the City’s Police Chief.

The question is – who killed the mural? And was that maybe for the best? Continue reading→

Is crime in Downtown Santa Ana being under-reported?

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Editor Posted in Crime, Santa Ana 4 Comments

A friend of mine runs a small business in Downtown Santa Ana, over at what they now call the East End Promenade. The other day he saw a drug dealer working nearby so my friend called the Downtown security guards and they came over and rousted the guy. Before long the drug dealer was back so this time my friend called the police. They knew nothing about any of this. And the truth dawned on my friend – the security guards in the Downtown are not passing their reports along to the Santa Ana Police Department.

Why should they? They report directly to Ryan Chase, the son of Downtown Santa Ana landlord Irv Chase. So of course they don’t give their reports to the police – but what this means is that the Santa Ana Police Department’s crime statistics are way off. Most of the incidents going on in Downtown Santa Ana, at night, are not being reported to the cops. The Downtown Inc. crowd is essentially cooking the crime books. Continue reading→

Outside interests launch cowardly attack on Mayor Pulido’s family

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Costa Mesa, David Benavides, Elections, Eric Alderete, Gangs, Michele Martinez, Miguel Pulido, Politics, Santa Ana 30 Comments

Mayor Pulido’s cowardly opponents have targeted his children

By now you have probably seen the horrible anonymous mailers that have been attacking Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido – accusing him and his family of hosting a party where a teen was reportedly raped.

The story was reported by the Voice of OC, an online news website that I have at this point lost all respect for. Their seed funding came largely from the Orange County Employees Association, a government workers union headed up by Nick Berardino, who has had some unknown beef with Pulido for some time. And the Voice of OC’s board members include lobbyist Joe Dunn, who tried to move the O.C. Federal Court of Appeals to Irvine but was famously blocked by Pulido. Continue reading→

Exclusive: Chases among those invited to Santa Ana Latino Jewish Forum

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Editor Posted in Civic Affairs, Civil Rights, Claudia Alvarez, Latinos, Orange County, Politics, Santa Ana 24 Comments

Irv and Ryan Chase

A few out of town bloggers appear to be having a fit because they weren’t invited to Thursday’s Santa Ana Latino Jewish Forum. It is sad that some folks have to attack everything – even something positive, like this community event.

I was able to get a hold of a partial list of those who were invited to this event, which is also being broadcast live online for those who could not attend. Irv and Ryan Chase were invited. I hope they attend. Others who were invited include a Who’s Who of Santa Ana’s community leaders, including: Continue reading→

Could toxic attacks on Alvarez lead to terrorism?

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Editor Posted in Claudia Alvarez, Extremism, Hate, Racism, Santa Ana, Tolerance 23 Comments

If you’ve ever visited the the Santa Ana Public Library in the Civic Center you probably have noticed a statue of a man holding a dove in front of the main entrance and asked yourself “who is he”? Is it a statue honoring one of Santa Ana’s or Orange County’s forefathers? Is it a statue honoring a historical figure from literature? An author perhaps? No this statue is none of these.

The nine-foot bronze statue that was erected in 1994 honors Alex Odeh, the west-coast regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, who was murdered October 11, 1985 in a terrorist attack right here in Santa Ana at 1905 E. 17th Street. Odeh was killed when a bomb triggered as he put the key into his office door exploded. The FBI classified the bombing as a terrorist attack and believed that Jewish militants from the Jewish Defense League (JDL) were probably responsible for the murder. Continue reading→

Claudia Alvarez apologizes for comparing Irv Chase to Hitler

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Editor Posted in Carlos Bustamante, Civic Affairs, Claudia Alvarez, David Benavides, Development, Latinos, Michele Martinez, Santa Ana 16 Comments

Santa Ana Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez apologized today, in a phone call to the L.A. Times, for making statements that could be construed to be anti-Semitic.

“What I said was inappropriate, and I let my emotions get the best of me,” Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez told the L.A. Times. Here are a few more excerpts from the L.A. Times article:

Alvarez said getting emotional did not justify her statements. She said the debate has affected her personally because her father owned a business downtown, and the incident is the culmination of escalating tensions surrounding the downtown area.

“The conversation is not over,” she said. “I obviously need to learn how to keep my cool.”

What the heck is all this about, you might be wondering?

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