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The Old Santa Ana City Hall, an Art Deco structure. Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA), also called Downtown Orange County, is the city center of Santa Ana, the county seat of Orange County, California. It is the institutional center for the city of Santa Ana as well as Orange County, a retail and business hub.
In 1985 the Santa Ana City Council formed the Charles W. Bowers Museum Corporation to form a new governing board to run the museum and to handle fundraising. [10] In 1986 a city study panel recommended an expansion in order to make the Bowers one of the region's top cultural centers and the anchor of a planned future arts district for Santa Ana ...
The city of Santa Ana spent $7.5 million to purchase and refurbish what was the Grand Central Building, originally built in 1924. The project has won three architectural awards. [citation needed] The center's fiscal plan allows it to self-generate income to support basic day-to-day operations.
Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA, / ˈ oʊ ʃ ə / OH-shə), [a] is a 7th–12th grade public charter school located in downtown Santa Ana, California. The school caters to middle and high school students with talents in the performing, visual, literary arts, culinary arts and more. The educational program prepares students for higher ...
After a period of decline in Santa Ana's downtown the Santora resurged as an arts complex where a number of different artists moved in including Joseph Musil and his Salon of the Art Deco Theaters. Musil was a set designer for the Walt Disney company and worked on the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood. [4]
South Coast Metro straddles the city limits of Santa Ana and Costa Mesa, and is a dense mix of residential, office, and retail developments that spread out from South Coast Plaza and forms an urban-retail village that is distinct from the surrounding suburban development. [2]
Koo's began as a small art cafe in Santa Ana in the early 1990s, at 1505 N Main St. Santa Ana. It was founded by Dennis Lluy, Lou Bribiesca and Dan Montano. It had a living room area dedicated for spoken word artists and for bands to play. Koo's served coffee and snacks from its kitchen.
It was later operated by Santa Ana theater proprietor C. E. Walker and named the State Theater. It showed arthouse and foreign film in the 1960s as the Guild Theater and was operated as an adult movie theater called the State Arts Theater in the 1970s. After the venue closed in 1978, the building survived a series of demolitions downtown.