Burlington Coat Factory opens in River Park, more renovations coming

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Shoppers flooded northeast Fresno connected Friday arsenic the River Park Center opened the doors to its newest store.

Mayor Jerry Dyer welcomed customers to a caller Burlington Coat Factory.

"Being from Sanger, my girlfriends from Fresno, but we came retired present and adjacent if it's a acold drive, it was truly worthy the drive," said 1 shopper.

It's the metropolis of Fresno's 3rd location, but Tracy Kashian with River Park says it's the archetypal to diagnostic the company's caller store layout.

"It's specified a large determination for them that fits successful our marketplace truthful well, and we person this beauteous abstraction available, truthful it's conscionable a large acceptable for them. They fought to bring their caller modernized footprint into this location," Kashian said.

This newest determination sits disconnected Blackstone and El Paso, filling the gathering that erstwhile housed Buy, Buy Baby.

Kashian tells america it's an important summation that caters to a wider audience.

"Sometimes you bring retired a circumstantial benignant of store, and it's a harder demographic to get retired present due to the fact that it's truthful specific. This is specified a large store with everything inclusive," she said.

Kashian added that Burlington's instauration is conscionable 1 of the galore projects successful an ongoing effort to refresh River Park

The halfway has precocious begun introducing much recurring assemblage events.

"Salsa has started the 2nd and 4th Monday of each period present successful the shops, and the astronomers are starting to travel backmost each Friday, the past Friday of each month," Kashian explained.

And conscionable up the road, respective businesses are presently boarded up for large clip renovations.

"We ever privation to bring what Fresno wants. You know, things alteration implicit time, and immoderate of the stores get bushed and you got to refresh them, and immoderate things spell away, and you got to bring thing new," Kashian said.