{"id":140179,"date":"2026-01-19T15:44:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T15:44:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T15:44:06","slug":"garden-grove-approves-250000-contract-for-design-guidelines-for-parts-of-little-saigon-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/140179\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Grove approves $250,000 contract for design guidelines for parts of Little Saigon \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a multi-city collaboration to help revitalize Orange County\u2019s Little Saigon, the Garden Grove City Council recently awarded a $250,000 contract to develop architectural and urban design guidelines to visually signal to visitors that they are in \u201ca special place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orange County\u2019s Little Saigon spans parts of Westminster, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana and is home to the largest concentration of Vietnamese outside of Vietnam. The enclave\u2019s more than 700 businesses generate nearly $1 billion in collective annual sales.<\/p>\n

Last year, the cities of Garden Grove, Fountain Valley and Santa Ana entered an agreement<\/a> to create a Little Saigon business improvement district and tapped into $550,000 in state grant funding to revitalize businesses in the area. Westminster received its own \u200b\u200b$250,000 grant last September<\/a> to help strengthen its Little Saigon area\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n

To help Little Saigon maintain its vitality,\u00a0Garden Grove leaders<\/a> unanimously approved the agreement that will employ the architecture, design and planning firm Gensler to draft design guidelines for the concentrations of Vietnamese businesses within the three cities to develop these areas to \u201csupport economic revitalization, job creation and cultural preservation of Vietnamese-American communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really to let folks know when they\u2019re on a property in Little Saigon that you are in a special place,\u201d Mayor Stephanie Klopfenstein said. \u201cTo create some uniformity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnlike a zoning code where it\u2019s \u2018you shall and you shall not,\u2019 these requirements, design guidelines, are recommendations,\u201d she added. \u201cSo nobody will be mandated to do these things.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the agreement, Gensler must first conduct community outreach and solicit feedback from area residents and businesses before drafting any guidelines.<\/p>\n

The cities decided to pursue the joint economic development venture last year, after a survey of Little Saigon by Cal State Fullerton provided some of the first detailed study of the area\u2019s demographics and economics<\/a>, including that it has more small businesses than the county at large.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Little Saigon has experienced significant economic changes and challenges,\u201d the researchers with Cal State Fullerton\u2019s Wood Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting said, \u201cwe expect that it will continue to grow and have significant opportunities for small businesses and entrepreneurs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of a multi-city collaboration to help revitalize Orange County\u2019s Little Saigon, the Garden Grove City Council…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,6735,11078,15344,767,1071,23,611,338,4823,77],"class_list":{"0":"post-140179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-fountain-valley","13":"tag-garden-grove","14":"tag-little-saigon","15":"tag-local-business","16":"tag-local-government","17":"tag-local-news","18":"tag-orange-county","19":"tag-santa-ana","20":"tag-small-business","21":"tag-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}