Focused On Fresno: Taking Over, One Corner At A Time

UPDATE 5/3:
Not sure that this qualifies as a facade "improvement" (like what happened recently at the Kress Building on the Fulton Mall) but you can see the OG facade now at the Foodland/Las Palmas center. Can't say we remember an auto parts store being there:

 

ORIGINAL POST 4/28:
One guess why there is heavy equipment and a cyclone fence at the southwest corner of Shields and West.

You have your guess? Okay. It's because...

Ding ding ding! Winnaa! Of course, another drug store (in this case a CVS) is destroying an old Fresno shopping center's look and plopping down a new building completely different looking from the current center.

It seems the old Foodland building (Does anyone else miss Foodland?), which is now a Las Palmas market, will be staying. But apparently the other half of the shopping center will be torn down. You know, right after they clean up the asbestos:

Which is too bad. Especially because of the little Mexican place in the corner.

Pretty good food, but the point is it used to be a coffee shop and you could tell. It has (or had) that old 40s or 50s coffee shop feel (like a mini Chicken Pie Shop) and was cool to hang out in. It'll be missed.

Not sure which builds more now, Starbucks or CVS.

Related: Check out the history of grocery stores in Fresno.