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Downtown Santa Ana traffic on 10/5 will be a mess due to the Ciclovia

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Civic Affairs, Santa Ana, Traffic, Transportation Leave a comment

Santa Ana Ciclovia

Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: SOMOS EVENT ADVSORY – TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT

On Sunday, October 5th, between 6 AM and 5 PM, the Santa Ana Police Department’s Traffic Section will be working the City sponsored SOMOS event. This event includes a complete closure of Main St. between 3rd Street and Warner for the entire day.

The streets for this event will be posted “No parking” starting at 6 AM until 5 PM to help facilitate the event. Violations in the designated “No Parking” areas will be enforced and vehicles are subject to being towed. Continue reading→

Check out DTSA’s restaurants at Savor Santa Ana on 10/16

Posted on September 21, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Entertainment, Food, Restaurants, Santa Ana 5 Comments

Savor Santa Ana

You’ve been reading about Downtown Santa Ana or maybe even checked out one or two new award-winning restaurants and venues. Coming this October, Savor Santa Ana lets you sample a rainbow of DTSA restaurants all in one glorious epicurean evening.

At Savor Santa Ana on Thursday, October 16 from 5:30 PM to 9 PM, pick up a booklet of 12 tasting tickets for $10. With your booklet and a route map in hand, you will be free to walk DTSA’s tree-lined brick sidewalks on a lovely autumn evening to exchange your tickets for your most-wanted food tastings at local eateries. Exchange tickets for local art and other goodies, too!

Start your Savor Santa Ana experience at the Ticket & Info Booth on Spurgeon Promenade (located on Spurgeon between 3rd and 4th Streets). There you can buy ticket booklets and pick up a route map. The Ticket booth opens at 5 PM on Thursday, October 16. Explore Downtown Santa Ana’s culinary and arts district on a night of tasting and experiences! Continue reading→

City seeks public input to make walking and biking safer and easier in DTSA

Posted on September 18, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Bicycles, Civic Affairs, Entertainment, Planning, Public Safety, Santa Ana Leave a comment

Santa Ana DTSA and Transit Zone Complete Streets Plan

City of Santa Ana

Community Alert: City of Santa Ana Seeks Public Input with Plans to Make Walking and Bicycling Safer and Easier in Downtown Santa Ana

Public invited to attend 3-day design workshop on September 25-27

SANTA ANA, CA – Imagine downtown Santa Ana as a bicycle and pedestrian-friendly environment that encourages visitors and residents to park their cars and enjoy the city up close! That is the goal for Santa Ana city planners and a team of consultants who are embarking on development of the Downtown/Transit Zone Complete Streets Plan.

Complete Streets provide opportunities for increased physical activity by incorporating features that promote regular walking, bicycling and transit use into just about every street. A benefit that results from this approach would include improvements that make it easier and safer to travel between the Transportation Center and Downtown Santa Ana on foot, by bicycle or public transit. Continue reading→

Santa Ana man arrested for felony hit and run in DTSA

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Crime, Santa Ana Leave a comment

Guillermo Velasquez Flores

Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: Arrest made in Investigation of hit and run vehicle

SAPD Traffic Investigators locate vehicle and suspect in Felony Hit and run case

On 9-2-2014 at approximately 1200 PM Traffic Investigators located the vehicle and suspect in the area of Willits and Raitt in the City of Santa Ana. Suspect was taken into custody without incident.

Guillermo Velasquez Flores was taken to SAPD and questioned about the traffic collision. Based on their investigation, Traffic Investigators arrested suspect Guillermo Velasquez Flores, for CVC 20001 Felony Hit and Run, the suspect was booked into the SAPD jail. The case will be submitted to the Orange County District Attorney for formal charges. Continue reading→

SAPD looking for DTSA hit and run vehicle

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Accidents, Crime, Santa Ana 3 Comments

Santa Ana Hit and Run Accident

Santa Ana Police Department

Advisory: Investigation looking for information on hit and run vehicle

On 9/01/2014, officers responded to the scene of a traffic collision involving a sport utility vehicle and a passenger car at the intersection of North Broadway and West Santa Ana Boulevard.

At about 1852 hours, a 2000 Nissan Xterra driven by the registered owner was traveling north on Broadway with his wife riding as passenger. As the Nissan drove through the intersection at Santa Ana Boulevard, it was struck by a passenger car traveling west on Santa Ana Boulevard. Continue reading→

2014 Konsept Arts and Music Festival set for Sep. 6-7 in DTSA

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Arts and Culture, Entertainment, music, Santa Ana Leave a comment

Konsept Arts and Music Festival 2014

The Konsept Arts and Music Festival is coming to Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA) on Sep. 6 – 7, 2014, from 2 pm to 2 am. Here are details from the event promoter:

Art, Music, Fashion, Photography, Culture all colliding for another day in the Historic Downtown Santa Ana, The last few years we’ve been putting together shows in this wonderful city to help push the arts. This year Konsept decided to do it even bigger, thanks to our sponsors we were able to put together 12 hours and 6 stages worth of music for you guys.

The team decided to do something different to give back to our community, so we teamed up with Locally Grown Collective to help a non profit by the name of Waste Not OC, an organization that works with low income families and homeless people start a new culinary program for troubled teens on probation. So with that said we’ve decided to donate all of the profits to this organization. Continue reading→

DTSA can’t compete with the MainPlace Mall

Posted on August 30, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Arts and Culture, Business, Santa Ana 9 Comments

MainPlace Mall

Santa Ana is a city of families – with more people under the age of 18 than any other city in Orange County. The transition in Downtown Santa Ana to a hipster paradise of bars, high-end restaurants and nightclubs has predictably chased families out of the heart of the city. Where have they gone? To the Westfield MainPlace Mall.

You see the majority of Santa Ana’s residents don’t want to pay $20 for raw hamburgers at the Playground. They don’t want to drink until 2 am. They don’t have an interest in the arts. They are just trying to raise their kids, get them educated and live a good life. What DTSA has turned into has no appeal to most of us – although it does attract the insecure folks who want to feel like they are hip. Continue reading→

Planning Commission to consider the Fourth Street Market’s CUP request on Monday

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Business, Entertainment, Food, Hipsters, Restaurants, Santa Ana 50 Comments

Fourth Street Market

Santa Ana’s Planning Commission will be considering a request by representatives of the Fourth Street Market for conditional use permits to allow a Type 47 Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) license, after hours operation, and a banquet use in the Specific Development 84 (SD84) zoning district on Monday, August 25, 2014 at 5:30 pm. (Click here to read the Planning Commission agenda).

The Fourth Street Market is the crowning gem of the Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA) gentrifiers. It will be located at 201 East Fourth Street and is owned by Ryan Chase’s East End Partners. What is this development? Well it is a “groovy food hall” – and when it opens it will join five other hipster eating establishments including OC Mix in Costa Mesa, the Anaheim Packing House, the Union Market in Tustin and, by the end of the year, another high-end artisinal food complex in Mission Viejo, according to Orange Coast Magazine.

So far at the Anaheim food hall, the crowds have not let up – though many visitors have complained about the lack of nearby parking, according to the OC Register.

I found a public relations article that had quite a few details about what the Fourth Street Market will look like: Continue reading→

Gentrifiers and Latinos protesting against police brutality face off in DTSA

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Civil Rights, Latinos, Police Brutality, Racism, Santa Ana 39 Comments

American Barber Shop employees

Employees of a business called the American Barbershop allegedly hurled racist insults at a group of mostly Latino protesters who had gathered on Friday, August 15, 2014 to held a vigil last night at Plaza Santa Ana, against police brutality.

A number of employees of this business were reportedly caught on video and in photos saying racial slurs and giving the middle finger to the crowd and members of the press. Members of the Santa Ana Police Department were there at the time acting as personal security to the East End businesses. Continue reading→

Updated: Man killed and two women wounded when shot in a parked car in DTSA

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Anaheim, Crime, Michele Martinez, Santa Ana 18 Comments

Aaron Johnathan Chavez

UPDATED: SAPD detectives arrest 23-year-old Dustin Sean Ross McDonald yesterday evening in a car stop near his residence in Garden Grove. Charges are pending, case has been submitted to the District Attorney’s office for filing. Charges will be murder (187), two count of attempt murder (664/187) and special circumstances enhancement (190.2) and weapons enhancements (12022.5)

Aaron Johnathan Chavez, a 23-year-old from Anaheim, was killed and two women were injured late Tuesday when another man came up to a parked car they were sitting in and fired 10 to 12 shots at them, according to Santa Ana Police, according to the OC Weekly. Continue reading→

The Santa Ana Streetcar will travel along Santa Ana Blvd. and 4th St.

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in OCTA, Planning, public works, Santa Ana, Transportation Leave a comment

Simulation of Streetcar in Santa Ana

Santa Ana City Council Tuesday night decided on Fourth Street as their preferred route for a streetcar system envisioned to begin transforming the transit landscape in Orange County, despite a signed letter of opposition from businesses along the iconic Latino shopping corridor, according to the Voice of OC.

In a unanimous 4-0 vote, the City Council approved a $238 million streetcar option that would travel along Santa Ana Boulevard and Fourth Street. Mayor Pro Tem Sal Tinajero and council members Vincent Sarmiento and Roman Reyna were absent, according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading→

Santa Ana artist arrested after he tried to beautify our downtown

Posted on July 26, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Arts and Culture, Crime, Santa Ana 11 Comments

Local Santa Ana artist Tony Pedraza was arrested and charged with a felony for merely painting a utility box mural that he felt would enrich and beautify the city, according to an online petition page that is asking that all charges against him be dropped.

The OC Weekly reported the details of what happened to Tony:

Tony Pedraza, a young muralist and painter from SanTana, painted the gunmetal gray caja after noticing other utility boxes in the city’s downtown were being decorated through a city-commissioned art beautification program. Three days into his own project, a police officer approached Pedraza and asked if he had a permit; Pedraza answered no. Continue reading→

Gustavo Arellano married Delilah Snell in Downtown Santa Ana on July 19

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Delilah Snell, Gustavo Arellano, Santa Ana 3 Comments

Gustavo Arellano dancing with Delilah Snell

Gustavo Arellano and Delilah Snell dancing to “La Marcha de Zacatecas” at their wedding. Picture from Facebook.

The OC Weekly’s Editor, Gustavo Arellano, got married to local business owner Delilah Snell yesterday in Downtown Santa Ana.

As one might imagine Gustavo’s friends were there for him and Delilah including culinary all-stars Roland Rubalcava, who provided tortas ahogadas/fideo seco, Carlos Salgado, who served aguachile, and Bricia Lopez and Fernando Marcos Lopez who brought a Michelada VW bus to the wedding. And famous DJ Richard Blade was their spinning New Wave music along with DJ Yellow Blackbird who played cumbias.

Snell owns the Road Less Traveled store located at 125 North Broadway in DTSA. Continue reading→

OC Pride’s inaugural Closet Ball is set for July 31 at Diego’s Downtown SA

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Entertainment, Food, LGBT, Santa Ana Leave a comment

OC Pride’s Inaugural Closet Ball is set for Thursday, July 31, 2014, at 7 pm, at Diego’s Downtown located at 224 E. 3rd St., in Downtown Santa Ana. Tickets are $10 at the door.

This event will be an entertaining mash-up of Dancing with the Stars and RuPaul’s Drag Race. Watch as contestants come out of the “drag closet,” transforming right before your eyes and performing in drag for the very first time. Continue reading→

DTSA East End Block Party and Vintage Sample Sale set for July 26

Posted on July 20, 2014 by Art Pedroza Posted in Entertainment, Fashion, music, Santa Ana Leave a comment

Downtown Santa Ana’s East End is hosting their first annual Block Party on July 26, 2014, from 12 noon to 8 pm. The event will be hosted by Can U Not Vintage, the spot for rad vintage finds and unique contemporary clothing & accessories at 206 E Fourth St, in Santa Ana.

They will have an all vintage on sale for $5-$10. They will also have live bands, vendors and choppers. They’re also offering FREE motorcycle parking.

Music by Mystic Braves, Canyons, Cosmonauts, The Rooms, Creatures Choir, La Poli, Flying Hand, Sail Hatin, Dragon Soundz, and Deep Field. Vendors include R.X. by D.R., Vanner Babes, American Bones Vintage, JT Closet Sale and more.

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