Downtown Fresno Office Market Potential

  The following post is about the expectations Strategic Economics (SE) has made about the office market in downtown Fresno. You can read about the current state of the market, here.   POTENTIAL TENANTS View of the County Courthouse from a Pacific Southwest loft. The government will continue to occupy a huge percentage of office space in downtown. This could potentially increase the demand for nearby retail, office, and residential space. Government:... Read More

Lenny Sharlet, Engage 360

Engage 360 aims at energy conservation by “hitting people with their wallet.” Member of Engage 360, Lenny Sharlet. Meet Lenny Sharlet. He is an active member of Engage 360, a community outreach programed aimed to educate people on how to save energy. By 2020, Engage 360 wants Californians to save 20 percent of our energy. I met Lenny and other members of Engage 360 at the Fresno Chile Festival. They were handing out paper fans to people in the infamous... Read More

Rose, Retired and Still Cookin’

San Francisco “is good, but not to raise a family.” Rose at the Fresno Chile Festival   Meet Rose. While retired, she spends her days cooking for friends and family. I met Rose at the Fresno Chile Festival. She struck a conversation with me as I ate, with indifference, a tamale I bought from a vendor. Well, I shouldn’t say we directly talked to each other. Rose and I quickly admitted to each other that we rarely use our hearing aids. Comfort... Read More