Fresno breaks ground on its first senior center

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Fresno broke crushed Tuesday connected its precise archetypal Senior Activity Center connected Blackstone Avenue.

Cliff Dodd looks guardant to utilizing the elder center’s amenities.

"Keeps your muscles and joints going, your caput going. So, yes, I deliberation it's a large thing,” Dodd said. 

Fresno's Mayor Jerry Dyer says the halfway includes state-of-the-art features and activities designed exclusively for seniors.

There are pickleball courts, gardening areas, a java bar, a pool, a fittingness halfway and more. 

Dyer says the $41 cardinal task is supported by section and national funds and each dollar goes towards a amended beingness for seniors.

"This is astir creating an situation and a spot wherever seniors consciousness loved, get connected, and make a consciousness of community,” Dyer said.

Fresno City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell says the Senior Center is agelong overdue.

"They person spent their lives serving and giving to this community. And present it is clip for america to basal up, travel unneurotic and to service and to springiness backmost to them,” Maxwell said.

The halfway is expected to beryllium completed by 2027.