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