Beach Boulevard, once Orange County's 'Road to Summer,' is better known in recent years for sex-trafficking and drugs. Now, three cities are pushing to reimagine the historic corridor.
Jodie Mosley remembers when Beach Boulevard lived up to its reputation as Orange County’s Road to Summer.
By the 1980s, Beach Boulevard had entered what would be a decades-long descent, its aging neon-lit motels becoming synonymous with prostitution, drug-dealing and cheap long-term rentals for people on the brink of homelessness. Anaheim City Councilmember Jose Diaz lives near the site of the former Covered Wagon, a red-tagged motel that the city demolished in January after buying it for $6.6 million. Diaz toured its abandoned rooms last year and found the conditions decrepit.
Anaheim City Councilmember Jose Diaz is among the local leaders committed to revitalizing Beach Boulevard. “Beach Boulevard is going to be a destination,” Diaz says, “but that ambition cannot be accomplished alone.” “We’re starting to see families walk up and down Beach Boulevard again,” Paqua said. “It’s nicer and safer than I’ve seen it in the 21 years I’ve been here with the police department.”After landslide, an Orange County beach town finds itself between a bluff and a hard place
“Beach Boulevard is going to be a destination,” Diaz said, “but that ambition cannot be accomplished alone.” “What’s special about Rodeo 39 is that we’re giving people a reason to stop in Stanton on Beach,” said Tom Carpenter, vice president of acquisitions and leasing for Frontier Real Estate Investments. “We’re changing some of those traffic patterns and making Stanton a destination, not a pass through.”
As part of its redevelopment efforts, Stanton is using state funding to convert decaying motels on Beach Boulevard to dedicated housing for homeless people.
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