Eaton Plaza is located at the heart of Fresno’s Civic Center between the Memorial Auditorium, Fresno Library, Federal Courthouse and Fresno Police Station. The historic Fresno Water Tower, listed on the National Registry, sits at the north corner overlooking the park.

MPA Design is working through an extensive public participation process to develop a master plan to transform the park, currently used for surface parking, to a new urban plaza. Through a series of stakeholder meetings of as many as 60 people, community meetings of 30-50 people, city staff meetings, and questionnaires to the public to gain knowledge of the desired activities and image of the park, MPA prepared 7 master plan schemes with preliminary cost estimates, for presentation. Thereafter through a series of public meetings and stakeholder meetings, a consensus plan has been selected by the community which was approved by the City Council, summer 2004. The amphitheater opened to the public spring 2006.
Client: City of Fresno