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Infrastructure –
New and Improved

Fall River is expanding and rebuilding its local infrastructure to provide city residents and visitors with more opportunities for learning, recreation, and other healthful activities:

A city-wide school construction program is building or retrofitting 11 elementary and middle schools over the next decade.

Fall River has cultural attractions in great supply, including a nest of museums on the waterfront and an expanding Arts Center. The International Culinary Institute (pictured, left) has brought a first-class cooking school and gourmet restaurant to the city.

City parks, designed in part by Frederick Law Olmstead, have recently been upgraded. These parks host celebrations, recreation programs, farmer’s markets, and other healthy activities.

A large section Fall River’s vast open space in the northeast section of the city has been converted to the state’s first “bio-reserve” an open parkland where recreation is encouraged and educational programs are run daily.

The waterfront hosts a new 4,200 foot boardwalk extension and is the site of an ambitious plan for future improvements to its existing attractions.

The Fall River community has made innovative use of its existing economic infrastructure, turning many old mill buildings into shining new sites for state agency and other office space, a new health care center, outlets, and affordable housing.