By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune Ever struggled with a heavy plastic jug filled with slippery detergent pods or thick stain-prone liquids while trying to get your laundry done? There may be a […]
Sustain your world at Eco Now
See future through the Smoke
The future has landed in Garden Grove’s Civic Center area. I’m not talking about the Civic Center Revitalization project; that undertaking – including a new police building with adjacent parking structure, as […]
Cottage Industries gets close
It’s getting so close, you can almost smell the sauce. The Cottage Industries project, which involves repurposing small older homes east of Garden Grove’s Civic Center district, delayed for years by a […]
Getting a hold on city’s future
The Open Streets event held on the streets of Garden Grove’s civic center-downtown core on April 2 is touted as something of a big success. According to the city, a crowd of […]
’22: The year it finally happens?
By Jim Tortolano While 2021 wasn’t a spectacular year for “sticks in the ground” of development in Garden Grove, the year nearly gone has teed up a lot of long-awaited projects to […]
Cottages may bloom, after all
Barack Obama was still president. The Rams had just moved back to Los Angeles and were playing before big crowds at the ancient Coliseum. No one had heard of COVID and TikTok […]
“Rusty skeleton” construction underway
If the steel-framed project begun in 2004 on Garden Grove Boulevard was a teenage kid, it would almost be ready to get its drivers’ license. But the Galleria, as the development was […]
“Boutique” motel gets planners’ OK
Plans for a “boutique” motel for the city’s downtown area got the green light from the Garden Grove Planning Commission Thursday night. The members of the panel voted 6-1 – with Man […]
Motel seen for downtown “Art Block”
The downtown area could be seeing its first motel under a proposal to be taken up by the Garden Grove Planning Commission when it meets on Thursday, Dec. 5. Cottage Industries, LLC […]
Good news on “rusty skeleton,” Pavilion
By Jim Tortolano If the words “rusty skeleton” and “Pavilions” raise your blood pressure because of the long delays in moving either of those projects from eyesore to attraction, there’s good news […]
