{"id":153260,"date":"2026-01-28T13:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153260\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T13:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T13:15:06","slug":"vacant-buildings-are-rampant-in-fresnos-tower-district-could-this-new-incentive-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153260\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacant Buildings Are Rampant In Fresno\u2019s Tower District. Could This New Incentive Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno\u2019s Tower District has coffee shops and restaurants, but also a lot of conspicuous, boarded up buildings. City leaders are trying to entice property owners to turn those vacancies into businesses. On today\u2019s episode, Fresnoland\u2019s Julianna Morano breaks down the \u2018carrot and stick\u2019 approach being used.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, the latest news headlines: a Kern County highway pileup leads to emergency calls for blood donations; and Fresno County groups begin collecting signatures for a sales tax ballot measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno\u2019s Tower District has coffee shops and restaurants, but also a lot of conspicuous, boarded up buildings. City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[14984,4480,9133,75492,62147,4166,75493,54495,8197,75494,112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-153260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-adelanto","9":"tag-ballot-measure","10":"tag-blood","11":"tag-blood-bank","12":"tag-blood-donor","13":"tag-car-accident","14":"tag-chicken-pie-shop","15":"tag-city-policy","16":"tag-collision","17":"tag-commercial-property","18":"tag-fresno","19":"tag-fresno-headlines","20":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}