If you live around Maple and Behymer, the new shops, restaurants and gas stations going up in your neighborhood share a common thread: Jay Virk.<\/p>\n
The president and CEO of Bottom Line Group<\/a> is behind the retail center reshaping the northeast Fresno-Clovis corridor, plus a long-running family connection to a Clovis pizzeria.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s a rundown of what\u2019s planned and when you can expect to grab a burrito, a coffee or an EV charge.<\/p>\n The updates<\/p>\n The center at Maple and Behymer started construction in June, and the details of what to expect in that space are getting clearer.<\/p>\n Chipotle, which will have a drive-through\/pick-up window, stands to open by March. The center is also getting a Haraz<\/a>, a quickly-expanding Yemeni coffee chain that\u2019s got locations in more than a dozen states and is sure to complement the existing local Yemeni coffee scene<\/a>. Haraz already has multiple locations in California, but this would be the first in the Fresno region.<\/p>\n Virk said a high-end salon has also signed on to be a tenant, and that Bottom Line Group is reviewing multiple tenants to fill the last vacancy in the center.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re trying to pick the right perfect tenant for that,\u201d Virk told The Bee.<\/p>\n The center is also going to have a 7-Eleven, which is going to break ground in January and expects to open by September. Originally, the space was going to be an ARCO with 16 pumps and a car wash, but after reviewing the surrounding area, the 7-Eleven will now have five pumps and focus more on providing additional food options to consumers, such as fresh breakfast and lunch and packaged meals.<\/p>\n What we already knew<\/p>\n At Maple and Behymer avenues, Virk is spearheading a roughly 130,000-square-foot retail center five years in the making, set to be completed in the first quarter next year, according to The Fresno Bee<\/a>.<\/p>\n The project includes 20 EV charging stations, a 5,000-square-foot store, multi-tenant spaces for local businesses, a men\u2019s health clinic and a confirmed Chipotle. Virk said northeast Fresno is one of the highest-income ZIP codes in the area with limited leftover commercial space.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re trying to go for more of a modern market that anybody can go to. It\u2019s just not a typical liquor store,\u201d he said, pointing to fuel and charging options designed with aesthetics and safety in mind.<\/p>\n Original reporting by Amber Hair, Hana Tilksew and Bethany Clough.<\/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 Related Stories from Fresno Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you live around Maple and Behymer, the new shops, restaurants and gas stations going up in your…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-508794","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\/508794","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=508794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}