Programs Emerge to Meet Industrial Automation Demands
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www.thebusinessjournal.com UPDATED DAILY FEBRUARY 2, 2018 thebusinessjournal.com the FOCUS | 8 CONTRIBUTED BY CLOVIS Programs emerge COMMUNITY COLLEGE A student at Clovis Community College takes part in a demonstration of to meet mechanized electronics, or mechatronics. The college will soon begin courses Banking & Finance industrial in the field, with an eye Roundup toward training students for industrial programs. the EXECUTIVE automation PROFILE | 9 demands LindaKay Abdulian President and CEO National Raisin Company Donald A. Promnitz – STAFF WRITER electronics, or "mechatronics," courses. advancing.” Matthew Graff, the instructor for the courses, The seven courses being offered will focus said they entail mechanical, electrical and more on industrial automation and training the LIST | 10 Across the Central Valley, automation is control systems, all combined together. students to become technicians in this field. Pelco by Schneider Electric making its way into manufacturing, agriculture “What’s attractive about that is helping And while the systems they operate draw tops the Manufacturers list and other industries. To meet this growing people understand how those systems work students’ attention and curiosity, they are demand, schools are now training students on together,” he said. “So if a company is hiring, the same ones that they would operate in a the ins and outs of robotics. they don’t have to hire two or three or four professional setting. People on the Move 12-13 The latest school to offer classes geared people to do one job, and the combining of Leads 14-16 towards robotics is Clovis Community College. systems and stuff like that has become more Starting Monday, it will begin mechanized and more important as technology has been Robotics | 5 Public Notices 17-25 Opinion 26 Planned Fresno Spurned in Bay Area, SoCal sporting goods industrial park may store Fresno-bound face legal challenge PHOTO BY DAVID CASTELLON Developer Richard Caglia addresses the Fresno City Council about CONTRIBUTED Turner’s Outdoorsman is planning to open a location in | his planned Fresno in the space currently occupied by Herb Bauer Sporting Goods. industrial park, which may face a legal Turner’s Outdoorsman, primarily a Southern California chain challenge of hunting and fishing shops, has included Fresno in its Northern by a group California expansion plans. of Fresno The Business Journal broke the news this week that after 68 years, residents. Herb Bauer Sporting Goods in Fresno would be closing, with Turner’s Outdoorsman taking over the space near Blackstone and Bullard avenues. Turner’s Outdoorsman is expected to begin renovations once Herb Bauer completes its “retirement” sale, which began Thursday. David Castellon – STAFF WRITER Turner’s Outdoorsman began in 1971 in Long Beach, and has since grown to 20 stores throughout Southern California. It expanded to Northern California with a location in Salinas at the end of last year. Despite pleas to the Fresno City Council by neighbors of Another planned store for San Carlos in San Mateo County was blocked a planned 110-acre industrial park to delay the project, the by the city council in November due to concerns from residents about members voted unanimously last week to approve the permit. the store selling guns and ammunition, reported The Mercury News. But those neighbors in south Fresno and their supporters may The newspaper reported that the San Carlos City Council not be done, as the lawyer representing one group of them said they have multiple grounds on which they could take the city to imposed a 45-day moratorium on retailers selling ammunition and court to challenge the council’s Jan. 25 decision. Around Town | 2 Caglia | 3 SENSITIVE TIME PRIORITY HANDLING PERIODICAL: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018 ISSUE # 325346 | $1.25 PER COPY USPS 145-100 2 www.thebusinessjournal.com FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018 seems to be at odds with the standard that Fresno. She described them as “very seems so well rooted in the city.” enthusiastic investors” who see the vision It will be an end of an era with the for Fulton Street and want to be a part of closure of Herb Bauer Sporting Goods it. — one of the few locally-owned sporting Stumpf said the Gutierrezes have plans goods stores in the region, and certainly to fix up the building and get it leased. Fresno’s most well-known. It used to house the CASA of Fresno After serving in the Navy during World County and Madera Counties office and War II, Herb Bauer opened the store its 13 employees before it moved to Civic in 1950, originally as a liquor store that Center Square in November. morphed into a liquor and sporting goods store with an emphasis on hunting and — Gabriel Dillard fishing equipment. In 1958 he moved to a larger location at Blackstone and Hedges Selma self-storage business expands avenues, eventually adding an indoor Secure Storage of Selma has expanded PHOTO BY GABRIEL DILLARD | The building at 1250-1252 Fulton St. in Downtown Fresno has archery and pistol range, as well as an its facility and also added new upgrades. been sold to a husband-wife investment team. outdoor snow ski training slope and a “We have seen the need for the swimming pool for scuba training. additional storage these last couple of Herb Bauer Sporting Goods moved to years,” said Richard Brassfield, co-owner its current location in 1980, and added of Secure Storage. “The economy has departments including The Boardroom grown in the Selma and Kingsburg area. for snowboarders, wakeboarders and It’s just the need for those additional skateboarders as well as cycling and units.” kayaks. The expansion will add more than Herb’s son Barry Bauer took over the 170 new units to the facility, bringing the family business in 1998, and owns it along number up from 730 to 900. Brassfield with siblings Reggie and Sheryle. noted that the project has been in the “We are in good health, and simply making for a year and half and comes retiring,” according to a news release from after the addition of RV storage two years the retailer. ago. Along with the new units, Secure — Gabriel Dillard Storage will also be incorporating drought tolerant landscaping, solar Fulton Mall building sold systems, decorative water features and PHOTO BY DONALD A. PROMNITZ | The Brassfields cut the ribbon on the 170-unit expansion of LED lighting for environmental purposes. Secure Storage of Selma on Wednesday. A 21,000 square-foot building on the newly reopened Fulton Street in Co-owner Susan Brassfield said that officials gave no indication in the initial Downtown Fresno has been sold to out- not just new customers, but loyal old Around Town | from 1 conversations about the business that it of-town investors. customers, have met the project with would be met with such opposition. The office/retail building at 1250-1252 enthusiasm. firearms, effectively blocking Turner’s “San Carlos is a welcoming community Fulton St. was purchased by husband- “We have many returning customers Outdoorsman from opening for now. where prejudging has no place, where the and-wife team Mario and Jenna Gutierrez, as well,” she said. “So that said, many of This reportedly came after the retailer rule of law applies and is not manipulated reported Veronica Stumpf, broker with the people that are returning are looking had already signed a lease and invested in such a manner to discriminate,” he Stumpf and Co. forward to moving back into the storage $125,000 in the new location. said. “Commonly, litigated legal tenets Stumpf said she gave the pair a tour of our facility again. Bill Ortiz, vice president of compliance require the city act with fairness and of the area, and they also sat in on a for Turner’s, was quoted as saying that city equity, yet this considered moratorium workshop about investing in Downtown — Donald A. Promnitz 1-800-982-2660 | TriCountiesBank.com FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2018 www.thebusinessjournal.com 3 The Fresno County RMDZ Where Recycling Meets Business What is RMDZ? RMDZ combines recycling with economic development, offering low-interest loans as well as local and statewide resources to fuel new businesses, expand existing ones, create jobs, and divert waste from landfills. If a business… CONTRIBUTED | This site plan shows how seven buildings of a proposed industrial park in south Fresno will be laid out, totaling more than 2 million square feet. Can use discards to produce a finished product or... 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