FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — In honor of Black History Month, city and community leaders are taking action to invest in minority-owned businesses. Vision View Business Formation Center in Fresno’s Airport District hit a new milestone, receiving more than a million dollars in funding to build generational wealth for communities of color. The Center’s Founder and CEO, Lynisha Senegal, walked through the area slated to be remodeled. She said, "We provide the services that minority businesses might not otherwise have the opportunity to access." Last week, city and community leaders held a press conference announcing more than a million dollars in funding to strengthen the business center. The California Endowment provided $800,000 toward the Capital Project and Central Valley Community Foundation provided $200,000 in ‘gap-funding’ to stabilize the capital project and additional funding through the D.R.I.V.E. Initiative. City of Fresno Council President Tyler Maxwell provide $500,000 from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding after the devastation of the COVID Pandemic to small minority-owned businesses. "You got thousands of people coming in and out of the Fresno Yosemite International Airport every single day, that is the economic hub of our city. Those were the people that were truly impacted during […]