The Central District project will be developing an entire downtown city block along Central Avenue and fill it with flat apartments, restaurants, work spaces, businesses, bars, a dog park, and more. The 53,000 square foot project took existing structures and repurposed them into what organizers hope will be called downtown Lima's "must-be" district. The total cost is approximately $4 million. Planning for the project began in 2018, with an official kickoff in April of 2019. A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Thursday in order to celebrate the milestone and continued development.