City Lets Swap Meet In for Five Years Only
Pacific Theatres has won City Council approval to operate its Orange Drive-In swap meet on a portion of the site located in Anaheim.
The council imposed a five-year limit, however, on using the site near Anaheim Stadium for the weekend swap meets.
Mayor Tom Daly proposed the time limit, citing the city’s plans to develop the stadium area.
“I don’t think it’s in the best interest of the city of Anaheim to have a long-term swap meet,” Daly said. “It is a site in a neighborhood in dramatic transition.”
The Anaheim portion of the drive-in site has been used for parking, while the swap meet itself has been on acreage within the adjacent city of Orange.
Terrance Dickens, vice president of Los Angeles-based Pacific Theatres Realty Corp., said swap meet vendor spaces are being relocated because of the anticipated purchase of nearly six acres of the south portion of the drive-in to make way for the Santa Ana Freeway expansion.
Caltrans is expected to take over the property, located in Orange, either late this year or early next year, officials said.
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