Bruce Broadwater, one of Garden Grove’s longest serving mayors, has died at 88.
First elected to the city council in 1992, he served as the city’s top elected official across six terms, starting in 1994.
Broadwater, born in Ohio in 1938, was a major figure in spurring the development of hotels and restaurants along Harbor Boulevard and in bringing big box retailers such as Costco and Home Depot to the city, as well as the 16-screen Regal Cinema complex to the Brookhurst-Chapman shopping district…