Former city manager Darrel Pyle snagged a job in Coalinga after leaving Tulare in 2010 but now has been hired to run the city in Hanford,a little closer to his Visalia home. So the big news in Hanford is that the city is going to get a Costco. ”We expect them to be open by spring 2014” figures Plye, noting the EIR on the shopping center at Hwys 198 and 43 will take a year to complete. Pyle says another biggie for Hanford is the proposed route and station site for high speed rail.”I got a call from the head of the California High Speed Rail Authority and he told me the train is going to come,either to the east of Hanford or to the west.” Pyle adds “entrepreneurs are already out there making property acquisitions” and that he suspects the CHSRA will select the eastside alignment. That would put the station about a mile from the new Costco.
