Dead Lot: NW Corner of West & Shaw

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Part of the RETAIL APOCALYPSE, just shitty landlords or both. This place is dead. And no, Halloween Superstore does not count!

There is not one tenant at the back of West & Shaw, now that Nina’s Bakery has moved (Remember when it was a Pioneer Chicken? No? Ok. I guess I am old then).

I know nothing of the landowner other than they are not into their property.

They seem content with their tenants closer to Shaw Avenue (Starbucks, Taco Bell, Broilers and Colorado Grill). Not giving two shits about how the property looks or what a blight it is to the neighborhood.

I have not seen one improvement to that building since the long-closed Chinese buffet place was put in. And just look at the lovely landscape:

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It feels like we should be ripping the whole thing out and putting up a condo building, instead of another retailer that will move out in a year. This feels like the trend we should head for in Fresno. If the lot can not maintain a business, make it a residence. Infill it.

A park would be nice too but we know that ain’t happening.

Developers whine about Fresno’s Master Plan and how they want seemingly endless amounts of land to keep building track suburban houses. Yet, roaming around Fresno as I do for my Day Job, I see SO MUCH land being underused, misused, or not used at all, it makes me want to FREAKING FRESNO THE FUCK OUT!

So I started Dead Lot, a first in a hopeful series of post, in the faintest of hopes that it will spark something somewhere to improve Fresno’s lame negative space. Fresno has a lot of negative space.

Hell, I hear that Save Mart fixed their PA after my post, let’s see what other weird things we can get accomplished here.

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3 thoughts to “Dead Lot: NW Corner of West & Shaw”

  1. Mikey you’re right! I checked around and learned the owner is from Beverly Hills. Out of town commercial property owners who don’t care about our community are a problem. The city needs to motivate them to maintain their property.

    But Fresno is becoming very anti growth. All the does is spur economic development and we encourage more blight.

    1. Cool, thanks for checking on that, Mike! Out-of-town property owners are a big problem for Fresno, not sure how to fix that.

      I wouldn’t say anti-growth, just anti-sprawl. Fresno has SO MUCH space for infill, but infilling is not as profitable or easy for developers as a big open property, so developers put out the propaganda that Fresno is “anti-growth”.

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