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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Mayor Dyer announced connected Monday that the metropolis has officially secured $100 cardinal from the authorities to "continue the transformational revitalization of Downtown Fresno and Chinatown." The archetypal task connected the agenda? Parking structures to enactment the mayor’s imaginativeness of 10,000 caller residents surviving successful Downtown Fresno.
The wealth is portion of a $250 cardinal budget that was committed to the metropolis by Governor Gavin Newsom successful 2023. While the archetypal $50 cardinal was received backmost then, the remaining $200 cardinal was deferred for 2 years portion the metropolis worked connected the readying and plan of upcoming projects.
While funds weren't expected to travel successful until adjacent year, Mayor Dyer announced they were capable to successfully unafraid $100 cardinal aft talks with the governor.
One of the projects is simply a 900-stall parking store catty-corner from Chuckchansi Park. The other, a 600 parking stall operation wherever the existent CVS pharmacy is located.
Dyer says the parking volition enactment a aboriginal 464-unit lodging project, fractional of which volition beryllium designated for affordable housing. He besides said the metropolis has 4 different lodging projects planned, 1 uptown, and 3 successful the downtown halfway by the stadium.
"Great cities person large downtowns, and what requires a large downtown is housing," Dyer said. "If we're going to proceed with vibrancy downtown, it cannot beryllium 8 to five, Monday done Friday, supported by authorities employees. It's got to beryllium 7 days a week, and it's got to hap connected weekends and evenings for that vibrancy to occur."
Water and sewer mains for downtown and Chinatown volition besides beryllium completed this fall. The metropolis volition past modulation into the Cultural Arts District on North Fulton with h2o main and sewer main replacements, which is expected to beryllium completed wrong six to 8 months.
Other planned improvements see parking, sidewalks, and safer walkable streets. Additional projects are expected to beryllium announced successful the coming months arsenic the City receives the budgeted funds and moves guardant with its revitalization strategy.
