{"id":341195,"date":"2026-06-01T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341195\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:46:22","slug":"bakery-inside-downtown-fresno-restaurant-to-close-amid-high-speed-rail-construction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341195\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakery inside Downtown Fresno restaurant to close amid high-speed rail construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:KFSN;\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"KFSN\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"122\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/user-uploaded\/kfsn-tv_fresno_navlogo.png\"\/><\/a>Sun, May 31, 2026 at 1:35 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>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>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>The bakery will discontinue weekend operations, with its final day set for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Co-owner Kimberly Cookson expressed gratitude to customers who supported the business over time.<\/p>\n<p>&#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>Libelula itself will continue normal operations, remaining open Tuesday through Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sun, May 31, 2026 at 1:35 AM UTC A bakery located inside a popular downtown Fresno restaurant will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,120806,1457],"class_list":["post-341195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-libelula","tag-restaurant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341195","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=341195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}