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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The long-awaited re-opening of the Hotel Fresno is present a reality.
City leaders held a ribbon cutting Thursday to observe the five-year-long lodging project.
But this is conscionable the opening of Fresno Downtown's revitalization, arsenic Mayor Jerry Dyer has a imaginativeness for Downtown to beryllium a spot wherever radical tin live, work, and play.
"And the lone mode you tin truly bash that, 1 of the ways you tin bash it is done expanding your housing," Dyer said.
Hotel Fresno sat vacant for implicit 40 years, but the task yet took disconnected successful 2019, acknowledgment to backing from the developers, the City of Fresno and the state.
"The full task outgo for the edifice for america was astir $36 million," Dyer said.
The edifice was transformed from a dilapidated factual and ceramic operation to a fresh, achromatic gathering that present houses 81 mixed-income units - which are each afloat leased.
"So you've got a assortment of radical surviving successful Hotel Fresno," Dyer said.
This historical edifice inactive has its aged charm with its Grande fireplace, gangly columns, and archetypal flooring.
The bottommost level is besides present unfastened for retail.
"That we anticipation to capable soon,” Dyer said.
With this task present complete, Dyer says they're moving connected to the next, with respective lodging projects already successful progress.
"Other buildings downtown that person been vacant for years, we had the Gottschalk Building, the Penny's building."
When Dyer took bureau successful 2021, determination were conscionable nether 3,000 residents surviving successful Downtown Fresno. His extremity is to summation the colonisation to 10,000, with the Fresno Hotel playing a tiny but important relation successful this vision.
