THE FORMER Food Giant and Walmart market at Katella Avenue and Euclid Street in Garden Grove (Tribune photo).
Long-time Garden Grove residents will remember it as a Food Giant supermarket. More recently, it was a Walmart Neighborhood Market, since closed.
It may soon have a new life. At the April 18 meeting of the Garden Grove Planning Commission, a public hearing will be held to convert the now-vacant structure at Katella Avenue and Euclid Street into a new religious facility.
As proposed, the 46,287-square foot building would be repurposed as FreedomHouse OC, accommodating church services, an accredited bible college and a child day care center .
The site is located in a neighborhood mixed-use center.
Another public hearing will be held on an application from Olson Urban Housing, LLC for a site plan, variance and more for a proposed 15-unit multiple-family residential unit on a 0.88-acre site on the east side of Newhope Street north of Garden Grove Boulevard.
The development would consist of three-story detached homes sold as condominiums. The variance would be for a deviation from the minimum property size.
The commission will meet at 7 p.m. in the Community Meeting Center, 11300 Stanford Ave.
Categories: Garden Grove
I hope the commission recommends the church use. Sounds like a good plan for the community. Housing that close to a busy shopping center doesn’t sound like a good plan, security-wise for the potential residents.