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CBS News
13-05-2025
- Business
- CBS News
Manteca looks to be next entertainment hub in San Joaquin County
MANTECA — Making Manteca the next best stop in the Central Valley. Already one of the fastest-growing cities in the state, Manteca is now planning on keeping people and bringing the entertainment to them. Just north of Daniels Street, right next to the Big League Dreams Ballpark Complex and at the western edge of Manteca's city limits, is the area that could soon be called "the FEZ." Right now, the area is zoned and ready for development, but the city wants public input first to see which companies or businesses they can attract. It's all part of an effort to make people not only visit but hopefully make Manteca their home. "What it stands for is the 'family entertainment zone,'" said Manteca Mayor Gary Singh. "As we know, the city of Manteca is the family city." Singh says the city is ready to add to its sprawling footprint in the Central Valley with this next big project. "Residential growth is here, it's already going on. The question is how do we keep all of those individuals that are living in our community to stay here and spend their money here," he said. Annually, the city says it already brings in over one million visitors to the western side of the city. Because of the success of the Great Wolf Lodge as well as the Big League Dreams Fields, now the city is hoping to expand by turning these empty fields on the western edge of the city that have sat dormant for years as the next big entertainment zone in San Joaquin County. "It would be fun for the families. I got two daughters, so now I'd have somewhere to take them," said Adrian Rojo. For Rojo and his growing family, he wants to see the city become that central hub in the Central Valley. "Kind of tired of driving to Sacramento and Los Angeles and the Bay Area, so I think it would be super dope," he said. In late March, Manteca posted a video to their YouTube channel trying to attract not only developers, but also users and businesses to the area. The mayor says he and other city leaders are going to a conference next week in Las Vegas to market the FEZ around and see who wants to develop here. The area is already zoned, the mayor says, they're trying to make it as business-friendly as possible. So how can the community help pick what they want? The mayor says a survey already went out to some people around the city earlier this year and the results were restaurants, very family restaurant-driven.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Yahoo
New police station will be coming to Manteca
( — A roughly 8-acre lot at 682 Main Street in Manteca sits empty now, but it is set to be a brand-new police station in the next few years. The announcement came from city officials this week. 'We pushed hard to put a tax measure in place, which is measure Q, three-quarter cent and one of the promises we made out of that tax measure was that if it passes, we are going to look at trying to get a new police station,' said Manteca city mayor Gary Singh. Officials say the decades old police station on Center St was long overdue for expansion, especially as they seek to increase staffing in the near future. Singh says the police department currently has 80 sworn officers. CHP assists with emergency aircraft landing in Plumas County 'We actually have run out of room in our current station,' Singh said. 'Not just even in personnel, but we also don't even have room for our vehicles' Mayor Singh says half the lot would be used for the new station, and the other half for a possible community resource. He said the new building may also feature a real-time crime center incorporated into a dispatch center, community rooms where the public can meet, upgrades in technology, and a larger workplace overall to accommodate officers on the job. Juan Mejia, a 20-year-resident, said he is in support of a bigger new station. After experiencing a car accident on Wednesday morning, he says he hopes a bigger station will mean more officers will be patrolling nearby to make the streets safer. 'For sure, it will make people feel more safe,' Mejia said. 'Better control for the city and a lot less crime.' The city's early estimates are that this new project could cost anywhere between $60 million to $80 million. 'Because we have Measure Q for the next 20 years, we'll actually work on getting bonding against that tax measure to pay for this building and get it done now,' Singh said. Officials say they could start breaking ground next year, and their goal is to have the new station up and running by 2028. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
