The City of Gainesville plans to make renovations to the downtown Streatery, a stretch of Southwest 1st Avenue that has been closed off to traffic since September 2020.
The city closed two blocks of Southwest 1st Avenue between Southwest 2nd Street and South Main Street during COVID to give business owners outdoor space to serve customers. Now, the city commission wants to renovate the closed street into a space that can better host festivals, markets and other activities.
Construction will begin in December or January 2026, according to Gainesville’s public works director, Brian Singleton, and the project will take a year to complete. The commission approved the project in October…