Business View Magazine | November 2019

273 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2019 WESTMINSTER , CAL I FORNI A talking about how you’re going to move people to these new projects that we’re building. And we’re doing a lot of it through grants – funding from the state and local governments. We’ve been able to leverage the dollars that we do have, locally, and we’ve been able to pair those with these grant funds in order to get some of these projects done.” Simmons is quick to add that as these projects develop, they will be done as “green” as possible. He says, “We are focused on making sure that we’re sustainable; making sure that when we develop something, we have an eye toward how it’s going to work with the environment around it. We’ve always had a commitment to being LEED-certified, and now, with California’s building codes being the way that they are, I think that we’re going to be able to continue that trend.” Simmons adds that the type of planning that Westminster is currently doing, and expects to do more of, is not something that it has traditionally done in the past. “Westminster is a city that came about organically,” he explains. “There was no Westminster Crossing Rendering Sigler Park playground