{"id":276483,"date":"2026-04-20T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276483\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:38:14","slug":"clovis-vote-barnes-noble-opening-and-restaurant-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276483\/","title":{"rendered":"Clovis vote, Barnes & Noble opening and restaurant closure"},"content":{"rendered":"

New store openings, a notable historic downtown Fresno building for sale, a sudden restaurant closure, and a contentious Clovis vote kept economic development in the Fresno area.<\/p>\n

See these top economic development stories from The Fresno Bee this month.<\/p>\n

\"Barnes Barnes & Noble is opening a new store in the former Joann location on Herndon and Clovis avenues. Photographed Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 in Clovis. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com Barnes & Noble will open its first bookstore in Clovis at former JoAnn site<\/p>\n

Barnes & Noble will open an 18,000-square-foot bookstore at Clovis Crossing Shopping Mall on April 29, its third location in the Fresno area. Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"A A proposal for a 2.45-acre storage facility site in the vacant field north of Shaw Avenue and west of Laverne Avenue in Clovis has been submitted to Clovis’s planning commission. CRAIG KOHLRUSS ckohlruss@fresnobee.com Clovis OK\u2019s controversial plan for vacant Shaw Ave. lot. \u2018A betrayal to residents\u2019<\/p>\n

The Clovis City Council approved a self-storage facility on a Shaw Avenue lot vacant for nearly half a century in a 3-2 vote despite strong opposition from residents. Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Popular national bakery chain closes Fresno cafe. It\u2019s not first in area to shut down<\/p>\n

Corner Bakery Cafe in northeast Fresno permanently closed after nearly 10 years in the Park Crossing Shopping Center. Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Construction of massive Madera casino will continue despite new ruling, tribe says<\/p>\n

The North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians says construction of its 100,000-square-foot casino off Highway 99 in Madera County will continue despite a state court ruling against the project. Click here for full story.<\/a><\/p>\n

One of downtown Fresno\u2019s \u2018most recognizable\u2019 historic buildings for sale at $8.1M<\/p>\n

The eight-story T.W. Patterson building at Tulare and Fulton streets, more than 100 years old and family-owned since 1994, has been listed for sale. Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Theater complex is at retail capacity in Fresno. What\u2019s new at Warnors Corner?<\/p>\n

The nearly 100-year-old Warnors Center in downtown Fresno has reached full occupancy in all six retail spaces, a turnaround after a mass exodus of tenants in 2022. Click here for full story.<\/a><\/p>\n

The recaps above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The source reporting referenced above was written and edited entirely by journalists.<\/p>\n

Edited by Fresno Bee senior editor Christopher Kirkpatrick. Original stories by reporters B.J. Anteola, Bethany Clough, Erik Galicia, Joshua Tehee and Leqi Zhong<\/p>\n


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Christopher Kirkpatrick is senior editor of The Fresno Bee and Vida en el Valle.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New store openings, a notable historic downtown Fresno building for sale, a sudden restaurant closure, and a contentious…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-276483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276483","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=276483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}