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A mural outside Del Monte Super Market, which opened at the beginning of August 2026.<\/p>\n
AMBER HAIR<\/p>\n
amber.hair@fresnobee.com<\/p>\n
The Fresno Bee\u2019s top stories of the day for Wednesday cover food, development and city planning across the Central Valley.<\/p>\n
From a wave of new restaurant openings to frustration over neglected Tower District buildings and revisions to Fresno\u2019s massive southeastern growth plan.<\/p>\n
Original stories by Amber Hair, Joshua Tehee and Liliana Fannin<\/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":"A mural outside Del Monte Super Market, which opened at the beginning of August 2026. AMBER HAIR amber.hair@fresnobee.com…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-431793","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\/431793","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=431793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} A mural outside Del Monte Super Market, which opened at the beginning of August 2026. AMBER HAIR amber.hair@fresnobee.com Here are Wednesday\u2019s top stories to catch you upEight new restaurants and an international store to take a bite of Central Valley: Several new food spots are opening or have recently opened<\/a> in and around Fresno, including Rumi Coffee, which had its soft opening July 31 at 7406 N. Fresno St. Owner Hamed Alghazali features recipes from Syrian head baker Anas Hamad. Del Monte Super Market, an international corner store, opened in early August at 4546 E. Tulare Ave., replacing El Dorado Carniceria y Taqueria.Tower District\u2019s empty buildings still neglected despite Fresno program. What\u2019s next? A year into the city\u2019s Vacant Business Ordinance pilot program, only one to three of more than 50 evaluated buildings have been cited<\/a>, prompting the Tower Neighborhood Association to launch the Vibrant Not Vacant campaign. The effort seeks a strengthened program that measures success by actual reactivation rather than secured doors and cut weeds. Councilmember Annalisa Pera plans to bring a revived, more aggressive pilot before the city council by the end of September.Public concerns \u2018absolutely\u2019 addressed in SEDA revisions, city says. What has changed? Fresno planners say revisions to the Southeast Development Area plan address public concerns<\/a> about air quality, water capacity and rural property rights. Changes include shifting land use for more housing, creating a consolidated business park south of Jensen, phasing growth and requiring further environmental review. Critics counter that the revisions fall short and that the financial analysis has not been made public for scrutiny.<\/p>\n