Downtown Anaheim Waits for Its Promised Revival : Whither Anaheim?
Redevelopment in downtown Anaheim has reached a crossroads. The area’s largest employer, Pacific Bell, is selling its eight-story building and moving. The Disney Ice skating rink, while popular, has not proved to be a magnet for the area’s struggling restaurants and shops. While most of the targeted area has been redeveloped, two crucial three-acre parcels remain vacant. What’s there and what’s yet to come:
1. First Interstate Bank: Exists
2. Temporary parking
3. Temporary parking
4. Disney Ice: Opened last fall
5. New post office: To be built
6. Pacific Bell: Opened 1992
7. City Hall West: Opened 1992
8. Parking structure: Opened 1992
9. Parking structure: Opened 1992
10. Current post office: Will be moved; may be replaced by parking structure
11. Anaheim Museum: Exists, remains in same location
12. Anaheim Towne Center: Exists
13. YMCA: To be built
14. Community Center: To be built
15. Gymnasium: To be built
16. Gymnasium: To be built
17. Boys & Girls Club: To be built
18. Temporary Boys & Girls Club: Exists
19. Historic homes: 10 houses to be restored
20. Union Train Depot: Now a day-care center
21. Vintage Lane: Five historic homes already restored
22. New housing: 152 houses and townhouses to be built
23. UCI Extension Center: Proposed site
24. Freedman Forum: Exists, formerly Celebrity Theatre
25. Possible Chapman Law School site
Source: Anaheim Redevelopment Agency
