Que Loco! Finally a Pollo Loco restaurant for Visalia coming to that vacant lot east of BevMo. A sign application request will be heard by the city Planning Commission Feb 24.
Visalia building permits up 13% in January: 2014 is off to a strong start, with new single family dwellings showing a 23% increase over last year. Total number of permits was up 13% with 3,474 over 2013’s total of 3,083. Total value of all permits was up 1% with $9,563,407.
1700 Cheers! The City reports that the Aloha Spirit cheerleading championships will be in Visalia once again this year! From February 14th-16th, the Convention Center will be booming with over 1,700 cheerleaders, family members, and coaches. These championships are expected to generate significant business throughout Visalia.
American Crane and Tractor has relocated its distribution center from Reno to Visalia and is operating now. The company has leased 20,000sf in the Visalia Industrial Park from Diversified Development of Fresno at 8910 W Hurley. Spokesman Ahmet Kodanaz,VP operations says the facility that ships heavy equipment parts employs 5.”We chose Visalia because we can ship overnight to all of California and the fact we can offer our products to both industry and agriculture here.”
Solar: Visalia’s COS campus parking lot number 7,the large lot located on the campus westside – may get a 1MW solar shade structure installed that will help cut energy bills at the community college. Facilities director Eric Mittlestead says if the board approves the project it could be built in Spring 2015 and offset perhaps one third of their power needs.
Downtown Visalia News
Nightlife Downtown: The former Senor Flinstones may come back to life with plans filed by Juan Martinez for a night club and restaurant at 539 N.Santa Fe. Also Downtown Carol Bott is looking at a possible wine tasking lounge at 115 W Main.That’s where Link’s Mens Wear is closing.
Also Downtown, D&E Yamaha wants to relocate its Mineral King motorcycle store to Center St in the former Caskey Paper building that has been vacant for years. ”We want to have more space but also it is a chance for us to own our own building” says owner Jeff Merrill. “We want to open a nice showroom Downtown and think this area could be good for business.” Merrill figures his costs in owning his own place vs renting will go down,not up.
Kings County News
High Speed Rail :Looking to mend fences in Kings County the CHS Rail Authority says they will relocate Baker Commodities near Hanford as they build their line through county farmland. Central Valley Regional Director Diana Gomez says Authority staff has told the company that since the rail line cannot swerve to miss the rendering plant east of Hwy 43, they will relocate the production facility away from path so that “they do not lose one day of production.” She adds “we know the importance of the plant to the local dairy industry.”
Fertilizer Firm Building Mfg Plant In Hanford
Tessenderlo, Kurley Inc (TKI),a fertilizer maker and distributor already owns land and has a warehouse in the city now wants to build a manufacturing plant on land it owns at 19724 Energy St . The 46 acres is located in the Hanford Industrial Park, The company got approval January 28 from the Hanford Planning Commission to build the 22,300 sf manufacturing plant they say will employ 25. This month the company also took out permits to build a new 12,500sf warehouse and 4400sf administrative office.
TKI is a leader in the slow release nitrogen market with the N-Sure® brand, a triazone-based solution widely used in many crop nutritional programs.
TKI says they are the world’s largest producer of metam-based fumigants. With the acquisition of the Sectagon 42® brand of metam sodium in 1999, TKI entered the crop protection sector that led to the creation of the NovaSource® business unit, to develop and market regulated crop protection chemicals.
Tessenderlo Kerley Formulators (formerly Ag Formulators) became part of Tessenderlo Kerley in 2007, offering toll-processing formulation and secure warehousing to expedite customer manufacturing and marketing.
TKI is a key unit of Tessenderlo Group, a Belgian-based multi-billion (USD) international specialty group founded in 1919. The group provides solutions for global needs in food, agriculture and water management and primarily serve customers in construction, agriculture, industry and health and consumer goods end markets.
Its fields of expertise are:
Sulphur-based specialty fertilizers, sulfur derivatives and crop protection
Gelatin and processing of Bio-residuals
Potassium Sulphate fertilizers and Feed Phosphates
Plastic Pipe systems and Profiles
Water treatment products and services, organic chlorine derivatives, intermediates and active ingredients for the pharmaceutical industry and compounds
Tessenderlo group employs more than 7,000 people at over 100 locations across 22 countries, making it a worldwide presence and a global market leader in many of its products areas.
Tessenderlo Group (NYSE Euronext:TESB) announced in 2012 that its subsidiary Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. (TKI) would construct a production facility at Hanford, California (US) and, at the same time, optimize its Fresno, California facility. Both plants will produce thiosulfate fertilizers.