Fresno breaks ground on a new parking structure, more housing in Downtown Fresno

DOWNTOWN FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Construction has taken implicit the Fulton District successful downtown Fresno arsenic a caller parking operation and lodging is connected the way.

The metropolis broke crushed connected the parking store connected Broadway and Tuolumne connected Monday, acceptable to beryllium named aft the erstwhile Carnegie Library, which was astatine that determination for implicit a century.

This is simply a rendering from the metropolis of that 8-story parking store acceptable to clasp implicit 600 cars.

"A parking operation that volition enactment adjacent businesses and a aboriginal lodging improvement with much than 450 units of some market-rate and affordable housing," says Mayor Jerry Dyer.

Just down the thoroughfare from the garage, crews were seen moving connected the tract of that aboriginal lodging development.

"It's astir families strolling to meal oregon attending a concert, artists showcasing their work, tiny businesses thriving and residents feeling arrogant astir the spot they telephone home," Mayor Dyer says.

The metropolis says the developments are made imaginable done a $44.3 cardinal assistance and $250 cardinal successful authorities funding.

"Those are funds the metropolis does not person to rise h2o oregon sewer rates for, wide taxes to beryllium capable to put successful its ain downtown," says Fresno City Councilmember Miguel Arias.

Those superior investments person already been utilized to amended the indispensable infrastructure successful the area.

"The replacement of h2o and sewer mains volition beryllium completed soon successful some Chinatown and South Fulton," Arias says

Mayor Jerry Dyer says that enactment volition proceed connected North Fulton astatine the commencement of the caller year.

The parking operation is expected to beryllium done adjacent December.

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