Modernization plan for affordable housing OKd

A complex of modernized and upgraded affordable housing is on the way as the Garden Grove City Council took action in support of that project.

With Mayor Steve Jones absent, the city council approved a preliminary award letter to New Tamerlane LLC to implement the substantial rehabilitation and “reset” of the project on Tamerlane Lane west of Harbor Boulevard and between Lampson and Chapman Avenues. Garden Grove had been assisting the original Tamerlane Associates in assembling 15 multi-family properties.

Here’s the SQR department store in Anaheim on Lincoln Avenue. The photo probably dates from the 1970s. A long-time landmark in the city’s downtown area, it was torn down during the redevelopment of the 1980s. Girls from Garden Grove and other cities traveled there to buy Girl Scout outfits. In Jim Tortolano’s Retorts column (page 3) he challenges readers to qualify as “original” locals by recalling other long-gone parts of the scenery (Online Archive of California). The

In 2022 that organization sold the properties to New Tamerlane, and in order to modernize them, the new owner is seeking tax credit and a loan which would amount to $12.5 million for a term of 58 years.

New Tamerlane will be responsible for renovation, interiors and exteriors of all 15 buildings and 78 units. Work would

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