8-story high rise one step closer to being built next to Chukchansi Park in Downtown Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Located astatine the extremity of Fulton Street crossed from the Tioga Sequoia Beer Garden and adjacent to Chukchansi Park, a city-owned parking batch is 1 measurement person to becoming a vibrant high-rise successful Downtown Fresno.

"It's the benignant of improvement that immoderate downtown would emotion to see. With lodging upstairs and different kinds of things happening connected the crushed floor," says Elliott Balch, Downtown Fresno Partnership.

"The Park astatine South Stadium Apartments" aims to respire caller beingness into the brewery district.

It volition basal 8 stories precocious with 160 units of housing, immoderate volition rent astatine marketplace terms and 40% volition beryllium offered astatine much affordable rates. It volition besides see retail and assemblage space.

"We decidedly request housing. The request is truly strong. I'm excited to spot a high-rise close crossed from us. The mural territory has travel truthful agelong successful 25 years with housing, but determination truly hasn't been overmuch lodging connected this side, truthful I consciousness similar it's a truly good," says Reza Assemi, Developer.

Assemi is the developer down Sun Stereo and its caller Little Sister Garage, a nutrient hub successful the works crossed the street. He says this task is different portion of the puzzle of revitalizing the area.

"Every gathering that gets developed is 1 little gathering sitting, and a batch of times those are the biggest obstacles to loosen up immoderate of those buildings," says Assemi.

The task has faced respective delays. It was archetypal approved nether antithetic developers, past canceled by the metropolis successful 2022. But past week, caller plans, with conditions from metropolis leaders, received unanimous support by the metropolis council.

Mayor Jerry Dyer says the metropolis is already laying the groundwork to marque projects similar this possible.

"We knew we needed to get the infrastructure money. $250 cardinal positive different $43 cardinal that would let america to enactment successful the h2o mains, parking garages, each of those curb sidewalks, gutters that volition let america present to beryllium capable to bash the housing," says Mayor Dyer.

Locals accidental the cardinal is the location, connecting the brewery territory to Fulton Mall for seamless question and entertainment.

"This is an illustration of a missing development, truthful I deliberation it's going to assistance link antithetic enactment centers that we person and marque it consciousness precise continuous," says Balch.

There is inactive a portion until this program becomes a reality.

Developers person until February of 2026 to get their finances successful place, but if they don't, the metropolis volition instrumentality the onshore back.

If the developers are capable to unafraid the funding, the task volition footwear into precocious gear.

If each goes arsenic planned, the estimated completion clip is April of 2028.

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