Business improvement district for Little Saigon gains ground

Fountain Valley, Garden Grove and Santa Ana are tapping $550,000 in state grant funding to support and promote Little Saigon businesses and workers.

Orange County’s Little Saigon, born from the flight of refugees in the aftermath of the Vietnam War and home to the largest population of Vietnamese people outside of Vietnam, spans parts of the three cities as well as Westminster. The enclave’s more than 700 businesses generate nearly $1 billion in collective annual sales.

Now the three cities are organizing to create a Little Saigon business improvement district, with Fountain Valley councilmembers most recently approving the memorandum of understanding for the use of the state grant.

Under the memorandum, the cities will “support economic revitalization , job creation, and the cul