The World Trade Center Assn. of Orange...

The World Trade Center Assn. of Orange County has until Aug. 4 to come up with a partner to help develop a downtown Santa Ana site into a $100-million office-hotel complex catering to businesses involved in international trade. The Santa Ana Redevelopment Agency, which owns the vacant 5-acre site, decided Wednesday to let the association amend its filing after a major developer revealed Monday that it had not given permission to be included with other partners on a project team, said Susan T. Lentz, the association’s executive director. The developer, Cabot, Cabot & Forbes in Boston, said H. Thomas Felvey, a Laguna Niguel architect acting as an unpaid consultant to the association, apparently submitted its name in a filing with the agency, even though executives of the firm told him they did not want to join the team. The World Trade Center Assn. is one of three groups trying to win the right to develop the land.