New stores coming to southeast Fresno after 20 years of planning

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Exciting quality for those surviving successful southeast Fresno.

Construction of the caller Target store astatine Fancher Creek Shopping Center began Tuesday disconnected of Belmont and Clovis avenues.

Construction comes aft 2 decades of planning.

Karen Valles who lives crossed the thoroughfare says she has been waiting for immoderate store to travel to the country for years.

"I was raised successful this area. And truthful erstwhile the garages went up, they sat determination and we were each excited. Nothing happened. Now I unrecorded here, but things are happening, and we're excited,” said Valles.

She and her neighbors present person respective different stores to look guardant to.

A caller Sprouts store is nether operation and gathering volition soon statesman connected a Michaels and PetSmart.

Mayor Jerry Dyer says helium understands the hold for the buying halfway has been adjacent to 20 years but that volition beryllium implicit by adjacent October.

“In 2008, 2009, 2010 erstwhile the recession deed things slowed determination were a batch of things down the scenes and past the pandemic deed and proviso concatenation issues but enactment each that down us,” said Dyer.

Fresno City Council Member Luis Chavez says with the caller store radical successful the country volition nary longer person to thrust crossed municipality to spell to Target.

“From South East Fresno to the nearest Target it is 7.8 miles we volition present person thing that is fractional that distance,” said Chavez.