California City's Ambitious Downtown Revival

"For too long, the streets of downtown Fresno have had that sad, toothless look of so many downtowns in midsize cities across the country. Like so many of those cities, Fresno has tried to lure business and commerce back, only to find that an aging downtown could not compete with the corporate parks and hermetically sealed shopping centers on the edge of town... The city plans to spend $30 million over the next eight years to entice businesses and create thousands of jobs... Fresno is the heart of the fast-growing San Joaquin Valley, home of some of the richest farmland in the world...One of the most ambitious plans for downtown is to resurrect the 15 blocks of Chinatown."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan