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The former Forever 21\/Gottschalks\/Weinstock’s building on the east side of Fashion Fair mall is being demolished to make way for a Dick’s House of Sport, a first in California concept store that includes climbing walls, batting cages, golf simulators and more.<\/p>\n
CRAIG KOHLRUSS<\/p>\n
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This weekend\u2019s top Fresno-area stories span new development, demolition and a dramatic rescue. Highlights include a Habit Burger rising in Clovis, Fashion Fair Mall clearing space for a California-first Dick\u2019s House of Sport and a 7-year-old pulled from a pool.<\/p>\n
Here are The Fresno Bee\u2019s top stories from the weekend to catch you up Original stories by B.J. Anteola, Joshua Tehee and Anthony Galaviz<\/p>\n This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence based on our own originally reported, written and published content. Before publishing, journalists reviewed this content in compliance with McClatchy Media\u2019s AI policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Forever 21\/Gottschalks\/Weinstock’s building on the east side of Fashion Fair mall is being demolished to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-413933","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\/413933","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=413933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FRS_EPZ_CHEAP_EATS_05.JPG\" "\\"FRS_EPZ_CHEAP_EATS_05.JPG\\"")
The Habits’ Gotta Habit limited deal is $10, one of several places for cheap eats, photographed Monday, May 11, 2026 in Fresno. ERIC PAUL ZAMORA ezamora@fresnobee.com Vacant building in Clovis demolished to build newest Habit Burger & Grill restaurant<\/a>: A new 2,560-square-foot Habit Burger with a drive-thru is rising at 498 W. Shaw Ave. inside the 52-year-old Shaw Village shopping center, replacing a former Title Max office. It will employ about 30 people and marks the chain\u2019s second Clovis location. The fast casual chain could help reinvigorate a complex that lost HomeTown Buffet in 2016 and Big Lots in 2018.See the demolition of the old Gottschalks\/Forever 21 at Fresno\u2019s Fashion Fair<\/a>: Crews are razing the 50-plus-year-old building on the east side of Fashion Fair Mall to make room for Dick\u2019s House of Sport, an experiential retail concept with climbing walls, batting cages and golf simulators. A 1970 time capsule was recovered during demolition and is set to be opened in 2070. The California-first store is slated to open sometime in 2027.7-year-old expected to recover after near-drowning in Fresno pool, police say<\/a>: A 7-year-old child is expected to fully recover after falling into a pool near West Magill and West Warner avenues Saturday night. Neighbors heard a commotion and pulled the child from the water. When officers arrived just before 8 p.m., the child had a pulse but wasn\u2019t breathing. CPR was performed before transport to Community Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n