By Melissa Montalvo

The Fresno Bee – February 21, 2026

Despite a setback to a planned mega development in southeast Fresno, Mayor Jerry Dyer is committed to seeing it come to fruition. …

By Ethan Smith

The Business Journal – November 18, 2025

Coast Aluminum, Inc, a Hayward-based aluminum supplier, will break ground on a 163,000-square-foot manufacturing and distribution facility in Fresno, marking a major expansion for the longtime metals supplier and helping secure its future workforce in the region.  …

By Clint Olivier

The Fresno Bee – October 23, 2025

Ask a Fresno business owner why it’s so hard to grow here, and you’ll hear a familiar answer: It takes too long and costs too much to get projects off the ground. A big part of the problem is California’s broken environmental review system. …

By Edward Smith

GV Wire – September 22, 2025

When experts talk about how manufacturers can best bring their businesses to Fresno, the need for faster approval times is a common thread. …

By Dylan Gonzales

The Business Journal – July 30, 2025

Scannell Properties, a national developer, broke ground Wednesday morning on the $100 million Westgate Industrial Center, a landmark that local leaders say shows Fresno’s readiness for large-scale industrial growth. …

By Ethan Smith

The Business Journal – May 29, 2025

A major industrial project in southeast Fresno has overcome a legal roadblock to construction, combatting an environmental suit designed to prevent the project from proceeding.  …

By Edward Smith

GV Wire – December 5, 2024

The Fresno City Council on Thursday rejected a $1 million plan five years in the making that would have determined land use in south central Fresno. …

By Edward Smith

GV Wire – November 22, 2024

Despite neither community advocates nor business interests supporting a plan dictating land use in south Fresno, a top city official pressured planning commissioners Thursday to send the document to the city council. …

By Edward Smith

GV Wire – July 16, 2024

For a university of renown, a new study from Fresno State comes with questionable conclusions. …

By Daniel Gligich

The San Joaquin Valley Sun – April 7, 2024

A major industrial project in southeast Fresno has overcome a legal roadblock to construction, combatting an environmental suit designed to prevent the project from proceeding.  …

By Eva Moskowitz

The Wall Street Journal – October 27, 2023

America’s business community directs most of its political efforts at the national level, which it perceives to be the most relevant to its interests. But in many cities, particularly in the Northeast, local government leads the charge to regulate business, particularly with respect to employment. …

By Daniel Gligich

The San Joaquin Valley Sun – August 1, 2023

A new study revealed that a small area in south Fresno is responsible for more than $100 million in the city’s tax revenue. …

By Staff

The Business Journal – August 1, 2023

A small patch of land in Fresno plays an outsized role in the local economy — to the tune of $102.7 million in tax revenue and $13 billion in economic output. …

By Edward Smith

GV Wire – July 31, 2023

As a potential fight brews over the future of land use in south central Fresno, one economic study shows that while the area only makes up 7.5% of Fresno acreage, it generates 35% of the city’s economic output. …

By Ethan Smith

The Fresno Bee – July 29, 2023

Once again, this year was one for the history books as the City of Fresno approved a whopping $1.87 billion budget and a nearly $480 million general fund for the 2023-24 fiscal year. …

By Tad Weber

The Fresno Bee, July 14, 2023

Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama was at a community event when a man came up to chat.

“We have got to do something about this crime problem,” the man told the chief. Balderrama had a ready answer. …

By GV Wire Staff

GV Wire – July 14, 2023

A proposed relocation of the northwest Fresno Costco is bigger than originally proposed. In fact, it will have the largest footprint among all Costcos in the United States. …

By Amy Fuentes and Clint Olivier

The Fresno Bee – January 19, 2023

Despite high inflation and economic uncertainty gripping the nation, there are signs of optimism close to home. In fact, the city of Fresno is on the rise. That’s the takeaway from a recent report by the American Growth Project that examined the economies of the 50 largest cities in the United States. …

By Lee Ann Eager

The Fresno Bee – July 30, 2022

Finally, some good news. While record high gas prices, skyrocketing inflation, and another year of drought are having a severe impact on our community — hitting working families especially hard — there is a bright spot buried in, of all places, the Fresno city budget, which includes massive increases in sales tax revenue, thanks to Amazon and Ulta. …