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Planning for downtown improvements begins
11 Jul 2026
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This week a committee kicked off planning meetings for improvements to Downtown Plaza in Fairmont.
"We're going to be focusing on the downtown area, which is Main Street to Park Avenue and Blue Earth Avenue to 4th Street. That's the area we're looking at," said Public Works Director, Matthew York.
The improvements, which vary in scope, are something that York said have been needed for quite some time.
"When I got here, we had money in the budget for bollards, street lights, some landscaping and we saw the need to do some sort of repair on the sidewalk system downtown and in order to group them all into one project, that's why we brought this forward," York explained.
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