Fresno expands list of businesses that can be open during the coronavirus. Here’s the latest
The city of Fresno updated its list of businesses that will be allowed to operate during the novel coronavirus threat being felt around the country.
Grocery stores, hardware stores, gas stations and a number of other businesses deemed essential have been operating since shelter-in-place orders were announced last week.
The city’s 500,000 residents have been asked to only leave home if absolutely necessary.
Officials say they will update the businesses allowed to open every Tuesday and Friday through the pandemic.
The closures are planned through March 31, but could be extended by city leaders depending on the when the threat of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, sufficiently abates.
The latest list showed a few changes. Appliance repair businesses are allowed to work in homes and auto smog-check centers can begin operating again.
Also allowed to re-open are adult care facilities for the relatives of people who are working, as well as construction supply stores and counseling centers.
Food trucks were added to the list but they can’t offer tables and chairs for people to use. Hospice was added to the list of health care providers who can operate.
Pawn shops, rental car locations and tow trucks are also now exempt from closing. Truck stops can open but they can’t allow dining in.
BUSINESSES THAT MAY REMAIN OPEN
- Accounting, bookkeeping, payroll
- Agriculture
- Airlines
- Alarm and security companies
- Animal boarding
- Appliance sales, repair, in home only
- Auto repair, service, supplies, and smog testing
- Banks and other financial services
- Bed and breakfasts
- Blood donation centers
- Businesses that supply essential businesses with necessary supplies (for instance, office or restaurant supply stores)
- Businesses that supply items required to work from home
- Buses
- Cemeteries
- Childcare and adult care facilities
- Community garden
- Construction – all construction in progress may continue
- Construction – emergency housing and care facilities
- Construction supplies
- Convenience stores
- Counseling and behavioral health
- Distribution and delivery of essential consumer or business goods
- Domestic violence shelter
- Drug stores
- Dry cleaners
- Electricians
- Essential government services (each public agency to make its own determination – minimize employees and congregations of people)
- Exterminators
- Farmer’s markets
- Farming (all agriculture)
- Food and goods delivery services
- Food banks and other organizations that provide assistance to the disadvantaged
- Food preparation facilities
- Food trucks (but no tables/chairs for customers)
- Funeral parlor and internment services
- Gas stations
- Government agencies and facilities as necessary to maintain critical infrastructure
- Grocery stores
- Hardware stores
- Health care providers – doctors, dentists, mental health professionals, nurses, hospice
- Home-based care for all
- Home repair and maintenance (landscaping, pool service, repairs)
- Homeless service providers
- Hospitals and clinics
- Hotels and motels
- HVAC – Heating ventilation and air conditioning services
- Laundromats
- Law firms
- Mailing and shipping services
- Malls, if certain businesses within the mall may remain open
- Manufacturing of essential consumer and business goods
- Media
- Pawn shops
- Pet supply
- Pharmacies
- Phone centers
- Plumbers
- Produce stands
- Professional services – legal, accounting, payroll, insurance, etc. (as needed to assist with legally mandated activities)
- Property management
- Real estate sales**
- Railroads
- Recycling, including electronics recycling
- Re-entry/rehabilitation facilities
- Rental cars, trucks, trailers
- Residential facilities for all
- Restaurants (take-out, delivery, drive thru only)
- Rideshare
- Schools – public and private (online, administration, and food only)
- Sporting goods stores
- Storage facilities
- Taxis
- Towing
- Trucking and truck stops (but no dining in)
- Utility companies – water, power, cable, internet, cell service
- Veterinarians
BUSINESSES THAT SHALL CLOSE
- Amphitheaters
- Amusement and theme parks
- Amusement arcades
- Archery ranges
- Arenas
- Art galleries
- Arts
- Auto sales
- Banquet halls
- Barbers and hair salons
- Bars
- Bookstores
- Botanical gardens
- Bowling alleys
- Car washes (exterior only, customer remains in vehicle allowed)
- Casinos and card rooms
- Churches (counseling, providing relief, and broadcasting religious services permitted but no congregations of people)
- Clothing stores
- Craft and fabric stores (may fulfill orders curbside for fabric to be used for COVID-19 relief)
- Dance halls
- Dances
- Day spas
- Drive-in theaters
- Fitness centers
- Furniture stores
- Golf courses and driving ranges
- Gymnasiums
- Health clubs
- Historical sites
- Ice rinks
- Industrial and manufacturing not expressly permitted
- Libraries
- Liquor stores (grocery and convenience stores permitted)
- Massage parlors
- Miniature golf courses
- Model homes
- Motorcycle clubs
- Movie theaters
- Museums
- Music events
- Nightclubs
- Performing arts centers
- Pet grooming
- Pool and billiards lounges
- Private social clubs
- Public swimming pools
- Riding stables
- Roller skating rinks
- Second hand/thrift stores
- Shooting ranges
- Sporting goods, hunting supplies, firearms, archery (UPDATE: The city on Wednesday moved this category to “can open”)
- Sports stadiums and facilities - all
- Swap meet/flea market
- Tasting rooms
- Tattoo and body piercing
- Tennis clubs
- Trampoline and bounce houses
- Water parks
- Zoos
This story was originally published March 25, 2020 at 1:08 PM.
