Fulton Mall is a pedestrian mall and urban park in downtown Fresno, California, that was created in 1964 by excluding vehicular traffic from six blocks of Fulton Street as well as some segments of three of the streets that transected Fulton. The Fulton Mall was designed by Garrett Eckbo as the centerpiece of the plan by Victor Gruen and Associates to transform Fresno’s downtown area. As specified in the earliest planning stages, Fulton Street, at one time Fresno’s main shopping street, was to be “converted into a high-quality dense activity pedestrian Mall” (Victor Gruen and Associates, Central Area Fresno, California, vol. 1, Research and Basic Planning, March 16, 1959). (taken from the National Register Nomination prepared by the Downtown Fresno Coalition).