Phase 1 of this Downtown Fresno project to cost about $22M

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The City of Fresno has started its sewer and h2o infrastructure project.

Thanks to funds from the governor's bureau and the state, Fresno officials are starting a $43.7 cardinal downtown and Chinatown revitalization project.

Fresno's Mayor Jerry Dyer wants to summation the fig of residents successful downtown. 

To enactment this growth, the metropolis indispensable make the indispensable infrastructure.

"We request h2o mains and sewer mains, the ones we person are unreliable, galore of them are 90 years old," Dyer said. 

Phase 2 of the h2o and sewer infrastructure task volition regenerate oregon rehabilitate much than 15,000 linear feet of h2o mains and astir 9,000 linear feet of sewer mains.

"From Cesar Chavez Boulevard to the to the south, each the mode up to Tuolumne to the north, and from Venice to the east, each the mode to 99 to the west," Dyer said.

Phase 1 of the sewer and h2o infrastructure task volition statesman successful the confederate parts of Fresno's Downtown and Chinatown. 

The metropolis volition notify each concern astir roadworthy closures and operation affecting their area.

"Phase 1 is really with contingency and immoderate different costs, it would beryllium astir $22 cardinal is what we anticipate," Dyer said.

The metropolis received $250 cardinal from the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development; and an further $43.7 million from the state.

Dyer says they volition physique parking garages, caller sidewalks, curbs, gutters and thoroughfare lights.

"A multi-modal proscription strategy wherever radical could travel parkland their vehicles, get connected a bus, get disconnected a bus, get connected the high-speed rail, and we besides privation to guarantee that we person a vibrant downtown wherever radical are walking and truly a 20-minute livable neighborhood."

The metropolis is already moving with developers connected 5 lodging projects, that Dyer hopes volition travel to fruition, perchance bringing an further 2,000 residents to downtown.

"That could hap wrong the adjacent 24 to 36 months," Dyer said.

The full revitalization task of downtown and Chinatown volition instrumentality the adjacent 4 years to complete.