ASIAN GARDEN MALL in Westminster’s Little Saigon (File photo).
By Jim Tortolano
Orange County Tribune
Although Little Saigon is often thought of as the commercial area along Bolsa Avenue in Westminster, there are also concentrations of Vietnamese-American businesses and residences in Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana.
On Tuesday night, the Garden Grove City Council will consider awarding a contract worth $250,000 to Gensler, an architecture, design and planning firm to draft architectural and urban design guidelines for the various “Little Saigons” in those cities.
Funding comes from the state Community Economic Resilience Fund. If the city is unable to negotiate terms with Gensler, the next choices would be urban design firms Studio One Eleven, then WHA or the SWA Group.
The idea is to develop those areas as destinations for tourists and area residents.
Also on the agenda will be:
• a Community Spotlight recognizing the Garden Grove Unified School District for its “notable achievements and acplishments in 2025”;
• the introduction of an ordinance enacting standards for public hearing notices and other city communications.
The council will meet in its chambers at 6:30 p.m. at 11300 Stanford Ave.
