Since 1875, the downtown area of Fargo served as the city's commercial center.  Over the years, the downtown area of Fourth Street to the Red River stagnated thus becoming a place of deteriorated buildings and vacant lots.  in 1958, Fargo received nearly three million dollars in federal funding to rejuvinate the downtown area.  Once the project was finished, the area housed the new Civic Center and a new public library.

The collection contains meeting minutes, correspondence, applications, supporting documents, subject files, financial records, maps and other material relating to land acquisition, property management, relocation of families and businesses, and land dispositions in projects partially funding by U.S. Housing and Home Finance Agency.  Separated materials include an extensive collection of photographs of the urban renewal sites. 
 

City of Fargo