Fresno leaders have long had lofty ambitions for revitalizing the city’s neglected Chinatown neighborhood into an “international culinary district.”
Similar to other former ethnic enclaves in Downtown Fresno, such as Armenian Town, Chinatown has been deteriorated by obvious issues like crime, neglect and age.
But, unlike other blighted areas in Fresno, the neighborhood adjacent to downtown has had to grapple with two distinct challenges — California High-Speed Rail construction and a proliferation of storage space…