Fresno City Council unanimously approves plan for new northwest Costco location

The Fresno City Council has unanimously approved a program to physique a caller Costco successful northwest Fresno.

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The projected store is planned for the country of Riverside Drive and Herndon Avenue.

City assembly members approved the program for the caller determination successful an unanimous ballot connected Thursday afternoon.

The warehouse is expected to beryllium 220,000 quadrate feet and volition diagnostic a 32-pump state station, a car wash, and astir a 1000 parking spots.

The connection for the caller Costco has drawn immoderate absorption from those who unrecorded successful the area.

Residents accidental they are acrophobic that the store volition bring much shoppers to the area, crowding the usually quiescent streets.

After receiving immoderate pushback from residents, metropolis assembly members delayed approving the caller store during a gathering backmost successful March.

Since then, documents filed with the metropolis person revealed that Costco has made respective changes to the program to assistance easiness concerns.

The institution said it plans to adhd a caller postulation airy adjacent the parking lot, expanding immoderate lanes connected Riverside Drive, and adding a caller crook lane.

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