{"id":339839,"date":"2026-05-31T04:31:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339839\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:31:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:31:19","slug":"bakery-inside-downtown-fresno-restaurant-to-close-amid-high-speed-rail-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339839\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakery inside Downtown Fresno restaurant to close amid high-speed rail construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, May 31, 2026 1:35AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bakery inside Downtown Fresno restaurant to close amid high-speed rail construction\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A bakery located inside a popular downtown Fresno restaurant will close its doors this weekend, citing ongoing construction impacts from the state&#8217;s high-speed rail project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The brick-and-mortar bakery operates inside Libelula, a restaurant on Broadway Street. According to the restaurant, the decision to shut down the bakery was driven by declining business due to nearby high-speed rail construction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bakery will discontinue weekend operations, with its final day set for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Co-owner Kimberly Cookson expressed gratitude to customers who supported the business over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;m thankful to everyone who stopped by when we first opened&#8230; just anyone who came and supported us&#8230; believed in the bakery,&#8221; Cookson said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Libelula itself will continue normal operations, remaining open Tuesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, May 31, 2026 1:35AM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A bakery located inside a popular downtown Fresno restaurant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[140043,140041,106333,7,140042,17774,112,114,113,26969,120806,767,4823,294],"class_list":["post-339839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-140043","tag-bakery-closure","tag-broadway-street","tag-california","tag-construction-impacts","tag-downtown-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-high-speed-rail","tag-libelula","tag-local-business","tag-small-business","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339839","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=339839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}