Groundbreaking for new police headquarters and senior center in Fowler

FOWLER, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fowler residents are celebrating the commencement of a caller constabulary office and elder center.

A groundbreaking ceremonial took spot connected Monday, implicit with accepted Mexican euphony and dancing.

The David T. Cardenas Senior Center and Police Headquarters is being built astatine Third and Merced streets.

The $17 cardinal task volition supply much country for recreational activities for the elder community.

With 16,000 quadrate feet of space, the Fowler Police Department volition person much country to turn and amended nationalist safety.

"A constabulary presumption close present that we're sharing with City Hall, that is precise small," says Fowler Mayor Daniel Parra. "It hardly accommodates, nary locker rooms, nary facilities successful there. Here, they'll person everything and a accidental to turn for the adjacent 50 to 100 years."

The installation is named aft David Cardenas, who passed distant successful March 2022, astatine the property of 67.

He was politician for much than a decennary and served connected the Fowler City Council since the aboriginal 2000's.