{"id":10538,"date":"2019-07-19T17:22:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10538"},"modified":"2019-07-19T17:22:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:22:20","slug":"construction-of-new-los-fresnos-city-hall-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10538","title":{"rendered":"Construction of New Los Fresnos City Hall Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10540\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10540\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/014.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/014-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/014-405x222.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new city hall in Los Fresnos under construction off Highway 100. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The new city hall in Los Fresnos looks impressive even though it\u2019s still under construction.<\/p>\n<p>Once built, the $3.4 million building will complement the Fire Station\/Emergency Medical Services constructed last year at a price tag of more than $1.4 million,<\/p>\n<p>The amount of money invested is pretty sizable but Los Fresnos is among the fastest growing cities in the Rio Grande Valley and its local government and other entities serve a large area.<\/p>\n<p>Take for example, a study prepared for the Community Development Corp., a pro-business organization that has given several million dollars for economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>The city has a population estimated today at nearly 8,000 people but its market area has close to 40,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p>The medium annual household income stands at about $50,000, while the medium age of the population is a little more than 28 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>And its school district, considered as one of the best in the entire RGV, has close to 11,000 students.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, construction of the new city hall continues although a completion date and opening of the facility might take a little longer than anticipated due to the weather, city officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN The new city hall in Los Fresnos looks impressive even though it\u2019s still under construction. Once built, the $3.4 million building will complement the Fire Station\/Emergency Medical Services constructed last year at a price tag of more than $1.4 million, The amount of money invested is pretty sizable but Los Fresnos is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10543,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10538\/revisions\/10543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}