GARDEN GROVE : City to Help Pay for Hotel Expansion

A Garden Grove hotel will finance its expansion in part with help from the city’s redevelopment agency under an agreement approved this week.

The Garden Grove Agency for Community Development--made up of members of the City Council--voted Monday night to approve the agreement with Angela L. Liu for the expansion of the Rodeway Inn on Garden Grove Boulevard, just west of Harbor Boulevard. The redevelopment agency will contribute $235,000 toward the project, including $25,000 to raise the height of utility poles next to the property.

According to the agency’s staff, the project will pay back the investment in five years through taxes.

Liu told the agency that the expansion of 54 rooms, added to the current 66-room capacity, would be “one of a kind for Garden Grove” because the new rooms would be 480-square-foot suites.

Also Monday night, the agency approved a revised site plan for the construction of a 30,325-square-foot automotive center at the southeast corner of Knott Street and Chapman Avenue.

The project had been approved by the agency, but the developer revised the site plan to add 2,600 square feet, requiring a second review by the agency board.