ANAHEIM, CA—This has been a year of explosivedevelopment in Downtown Anaheim. In the spring,Brookfield Residential welcomed its first move-insto the Domain, a community of 100 stacked flatsand townhomes. In May, the Packing House opened—anew food hall and a leader in the restaurant-oriented PackingDistrict. Most recently, an eight-story, 191,556-square-foot,class-A building near City Hall was leased to St. JosephHeritage Healthcare, comprising Orange County's largestlease of the year to date, as GlobeSt.com previously reported. To get a sense of whatled to this progress, we spoke with John Woodhead,Anaheim's director of community and economic development.

GlobeSt.com: Can you describe the planning that ledto these successes?

Woodhead: The vision for the PackingDistrict emerged over more than a decade, with the City navigatingseveral planning and approval steps along the way. Theretail centerpiece is Anaheim's 1919 PackingHouse, which originally transported Sunkistoranges to the rest of the US. The City wanted the Packing House tooffer an authentically Anaheim urbanism, growing organically withindependent vendors and helping to attract new residents.