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Popular fried-chicken restaurant Raising Cane’s will open its second Fresno location on Tuesday, bringing the popular restaurant chain closer to residents near the fast-growing El Paseo shopping center near Herndon Avenue and Highway 99. Tuesday’s grand opening begins at 9 a.m. and will feature a “Lucky 20” drawing to award 20 customers free Cane’s for a year. The first 100 customers to purchase a combo meal will also receive a commemorative hat and free box combo card, good for a free box combo on a return visit.

A new Raising Cane’s restaurant opens Tuesday in northwest Fresno. The Weber and Herndon location is now the chain’s second restaurant in the Fresno area. There is also a location in Clovis. Doors open at 9 am. As part of a grand opening celebration, there will be a drawing to award 20 customers free Cane’s chicken for a year.

If you are one of the many who deem yourself a Costco superfan, a trip to California may soon be in order to peruse the aisles of what will be one of the country’s largest locations. After lots of legal back-and-forth, a location in northwest Fresno will be replaced by a “massive 219,000-square-foot warehouse,” according to Amanda Bartlett at SF Gate.

Costco Wholesale has won a green light from the Fresno City Council to relocate its existing West Shaw Avenue store to a new, larger location on West Herndon Avenue, a few miles to the northwest. The council unanimously approved a cluster of zoning, planning and environmental actions that will allow Costco to develop a 22.4-acre site at the northeast corner of Herndon Avenue and Riverside Drive.

Ten years ago this week, Fresno’s fastest-growing shopping center got off to a “modest” 300,000 square-foot start with a new Target, Ross, Petco, Burlington, Marshall’s and more. Rich Development, Gryphon Capital and N3 Real Estate partnered on the $74 million Marketplace at El Paseo development at Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue.

The list of options for shopping and dining is expanding in Northwest Fresno. Crews were seen turning dirt on a new space for businesses in the Marketplace at El Paseo on Wednesday.

Same spot. Different burgers. National chain Wayback Burgers has closed its only location in Fresno, but a local, family-owned burger spot has already reopened in the same spot. The restaurant is in the Marketplace at El Paseo shopping center near Highway 99 and Herndon Avenue, in one of the outbuildings facing Riverside Drive.

California State Senator Shannon Grove Congratulates Gryphon Capital and The Marketplace at El Paseo for being a finalist for the “Best Shopping Center” Award at the 10th Annual Best of Central Valley Business Readers Choice Awards hosted by The Business Journal in Fresno.

A northwest Fresno neighborhood is expanding. By next summer, 11 new stores are scheduled to open up shop at the Marketplace at El Paseo Shopping Center in northwest Fresno. Lewis Smith, Senior Vice President at Retail California, says people should look forward to never before seen businesses coming to Fresno.

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A new Angry Chickz will soon raise the heat level in northwest Fresno. The franchise known for its Nashville Hot Chicken will open its newest location at El Paseo Marketplace. The restaurant is just one of several new businesses planning to come to the shopping center.