{"id":276584,"date":"2026-04-20T09:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276584\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:33:18","slug":"warnors-corner-clovis-bookstore-opening-bakery-closing-a-betrayal-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276584\/","title":{"rendered":"Warnors Corner; Clovis bookstore opening; bakery closing, a \u2018betrayal,\u2019 and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">See these top economic development stories from The Fresno Bee this month.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Barnes &amp; Noble is opening a new store in the former Joann location on Herndon and Clovis avenues. Photographed Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 in Clovis.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"590\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/436a4c4be5aaa35b9d75d08ca0f3400d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Barnes &amp; Noble is opening a new store in the former Joann location on Herndon and Clovis avenues. Photographed Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026 in Clovis.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes &amp; Noble will open its first bookstore in Clovis at former JoAnn site<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Barnes &amp; Noble will open an 18,000-square-foot bookstore at Clovis Crossing Shopping Mall on April 29, its third location in the Fresno area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315268408.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for full story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here for full story&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"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.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/c0121c4acc64c6e6cc24dc0ab711d766.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s planning commission.<\/p>\n<p>Clovis OK\u2019s controversial plan for vacant Shaw Ave. lot. \u2018A betrayal to residents\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315436204.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for full story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here for full story&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Popular national bakery chain closes Fresno cafe. It\u2019s not first in area to shut down<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corner Bakery Cafe in northeast Fresno permanently closed after nearly 10 years in the Park Crossing Shopping Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/living\/food-drink\/article315356921.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for full story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here for full story&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of massive Madera casino will continue despite new ruling, tribe says<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315395035.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for full story.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here for full story.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here for full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of downtown Fresno\u2019s \u2018most recognizable\u2019 historic buildings for sale at $8.1M<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315267208.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for full story;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here for full story&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here for full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Theater complex is at retail capacity in Fresno. What\u2019s new at Warnors Corner?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/news\/local\/article315267208.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here for full story.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Click here for full story.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Click here for full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New store openings, a notable historic downtown Fresno building for sale, a sudden restaurant closure, and a contentious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10009,119595,17774,15556,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-276584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-clovis","tag-clovis-city-council","tag-downtown-fresno","tag-economic-development","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276584","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=276584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}