The Anaheim City Council Aug. 23 designated a mile-long portion of the Brookhurst corridor, between Broadway and Ball Road, as “Little Arabia.”
The corridor contains a variety of buildings ranging from retail, office, and commercial to residential. The highest concentration of Middle Eastern-serving businesses is contained in the Brookhurst corridor, more than in any other part of the city.
The council voted 5–0 in favor of the name designation. Mayor Pro Tem Trevor O’Neil favored but abstained from the decision, wanting to be more deliberate with the issue. “There is a process to make it happen and I’m not ready to make that determination tonight,” O’Neil said….