{"id":2580,"date":"2025-10-13T23:44:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/2580\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T23:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T23:44:35","slug":"fresno-gets-100-million-grant-to-revamp-downtown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/2580\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno gets $100 million grant to revamp downtown area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"jxTEW Poyse uieav lqtkC HkWF HfYhe kGyAC \">The projects include new street lights, water and sewage lines, improving sidewalks, and two new parking garages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A huge boost to Fresno&#8217;s downtown revitalization is expected to turn plans into projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Fresno was granted $100 million in funding, the largest amount the city has ever received from the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The money is dedicated to downtown Fresno improvements and construction costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The projects include new street lights, water and sewage lines, improving sidewalks, and two new parking garages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mayor Jerry Dyer says the goal is to bring more businesses, housing, and residents to downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;We are doing everything we can to accelerate housing downtown,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The goal was to get to 10,000 people living downtown, and in order for that to occur, there are a lot of things that need to happen with the infrastructure. The water main, sewer mains, parking structures, all those things that will make it much more inviting for people to develop in the downtown area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Construction for the first parking garage is set to start in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Work on the second structure is planned for February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Another $100 million from the state is expected next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Those funds are earmarked for an inter-mobile transportation hub, green spaces and other amenities.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The projects include new street lights, water and sewage lines, improving sidewalks, and two new parking garages. FRESNO,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3435,3436,1053,818,112,114,113,3434,294],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-100-million-grant","tag-3436","tag-city-of-fresno","tag-downtown","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-renovation-projects","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}