-June 2,2020-
Home building slows in Visalia
Visalia home building through May is down 30%. New commercial permits are down 77% by valuation year to date and down 40% by number. Total permits are down 25%.
Enterprise Rent A Car lays off 135 permanently statewide
Enterprise Rent A Car filed a state WARN notice that they are permanently laying off 135 employees statewide. Included in that number are Fresno /Clovis at 62, Hanford-4,Sacramento -36,Visalia/Tulare /Porterville – 10 and Bakersfield -22. Layoffs were as of April 31.The layoffs affect workers with the Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental and Alamo Rent A Car brands
Brewery Taproom construction underway in industrial park
Applicant Jeff Wimp is busy building a new taproom at MooseDog Brewery at 9626 W Nicholas Ave Unit 102 in the Visalia Industrial Park according to a city permit. The project’s value is set at $353,000. According the their website they hope to open by the end of summer. Contact MooseDogBrewing@gmail.com
Tulare council approves 226 acre annexation for transit development
Tulare City Council has approved a 226 acre annexation farmland located on the east side of Oakmore Street between Bardsley Avenue and Avenue 228 and adjacent to the existing city limits. The applicant Arun Toor has submitted plans for the land near the COS campus and Mission Oaks HS.
The proposed site is designated as COS North Transit Oriented Development (TOD). TOD is a planning and urban design concept that calls for a mix of land uses centered on access to public transit. Typical TOD areas have higher-intensity uses located near transit with the intensity of uses decreasing the further from the transit center. The land use concept for the COS North plan area is intended to create a new community to serve COS students and staff, as well as existing and future Tulare residents, with retail services, housing, and a new park and school.