Lucky's Donut House to close after over 33 years in Central Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- "Having these folks greet maine and cognize maine and invited america into their constitution is similar getting a hug erstwhile you locomotion done that beforehand door," lawsuit of 20 years, Mary Beth Shields, said.

Lucky's donut location has been a staple for galore successful Central Fresno for the past 33 years.

"I've been coming present since I was not adjacent gangly capable to look implicit the past enactment of donuts," lawsuit Jack Cox said.

Come Memorial Day, the donut store volition beryllium forced to close.

"It came to america arsenic a implicit shock," manager and proprietor Judy Taing said.

Taing says the metropolis gave the store a 60-day eviction announcement successful March.

"We weren't definite what the announcement was successful regards to," Taing explained. "We aboriginal recovered retired that we spoke to the spot owner, and they privation to physique a state presumption and demo our gathering down truthful they tin determination guardant with their project."

She says the donut store was ne'er notified astir an appeals process to effort to halt the project.

"How was this approved? As a tiny concern owner, we weren't adjacent notified that this task was going on, that adjacent a licence was submitted and projected to the metropolis of Fresno," Taing said.

Loyal customers are saddened by the quality of the closure.

"I'm conscionable bittersweet to deliberation that they're going to spell away," Shields said.

"I'm precise surprised, a small devastated," lawsuit Stephanie Inskeep said. "I travel present each Sunday and acquisition donuts for my church."

"I offered them to commencement selling retired of our surviving country I emotion this spot truthful much," Cox explained.

"It's conscionable not a lawsuit anymore, we're each household present that we've built present and that's what we're going to miss the most," Taing said astir her customers.

Lucky's is searching for a caller determination but says it could instrumentality 1 oregon 2 years to relocate.

"We privation to beryllium wrong the assemblage aforesaid area," Taing explained. "Hopefully wrong a fractional mile to a mile radius astatine astir truthful we tin inactive service the aforesaid community."

"They person my loyalty for wherever they acceptable up," Shields said.

"Lucky's is the mode to go," Cox added.

Lucky's doors officially adjacent connected May 27.

For quality and upwind updates, travel Tiffany Olin connected Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.