Tour of California
Part 1: Los Angeles
Part 2: Glendale, Pasadena, Hollywood
Part 3:
Riverside, Long Beach, Santa Ana
Part 4: San Jose
Part 5: San Diego
Part 6: Fresno
According to wikipedia, Fresno is California's sixth largest city with 481,035 people, though it scores second compared to Sacramento in terms of metro population in the Central Valley. Fresno is one of those places that always perplexes me as to why anyone would move there (the answer of course is cheaper housing/office space). I wouldn't say that my visit there really changed my mind. But, at least Fresno does have a proper downtown with lots of potential (mostly unrealized it seems) if the powers that be would focus on downtown revival/development and not into far flung office parks like I've heard is the norm there. Nevertheless, here are my pics. I hope you enjoy.
A typical site in the Central Valley
Wasted opportunities
Downtown highrise living in Fresno
...a legacy of the sixties and seventies...
Fresno's signature tower. I read this building was to be turned into condos?
I could hear construction going on in the upper floors
The good...a long pedestrian mall in the heart of downtown, plenty of open plazas and public art
...and there is a sizable collection of older buildings to give Fresno more character...
Caught out of the corner of me eye, this caused me to pause...
Fresno steps into the new era with modern architecture
Parking structures rival some buildings for skyscraper space
Fresno City Hall...Not enough angles to capture this one
C'est tout!