Robert Sprague visited The Central District's Makerspace to meet with entrepreneurs to talk about what programs are available to them to take advantage of. The partners in The Central District say some local business owners need to be pointed in the right direction to help them take their next step, to start or expand their business.

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.