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Kern County commercial real estate news: project approvals, hearings and the property sales and leases shaping the market.
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City Lights Bakersfield: Who Is Leasing at the Former East Hills Mall Site
A $7.2 million dead-mall purchase in 2021 has become City Lights, a 350,000-square-foot open-air center at 3000 Mall View Road in Bakersfield that was 90% leased by July…
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MAG Energy Solar Mojave: Kern County Approves a 1,477 kW Accessory Array for an Industrial User
Kern County approved a 1,477-kilowatt accessory solar array in Mojave on July 14, 2026. The permit shows how the county treats solar built to cut an industrial neighbor’s…
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Riverview Marketplace Bakersfield: The 405,531-SF Whole Foods Center Explained
DJM Capital Partners wants to turn the former PG&E Kern Power Plant site at Rosedale Highway and Coffee Road into northwest Bakersfield’s next grocery-anchored center. Here is what…
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Chevron 7Z Development Project: State Permit Clears Six Oil Field Pads Near McKittrick
A July 9, 2026 state wildlife permit lets Chevron grade six pads for future wells in the McKittrick Oil Field in western Kern County. Here is what the…
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I-5 Stockdale Highway Travel Center: Kern Approves Truck Stop and 60-Room Hotel
Kern County approved Lynn Trucking’s plan for a 60-room hotel, 23 fuel pumps, a truck wash and a repair shop at the northwest corner of Interstate 5 and…
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Mt. Vernon Avenue Transfer Station Bakersfield: State Clears City Site to Accept Trash
A revised permit lets the City of Bakersfield’s southeast recycling and composting complex take municipal solid waste for transfer, with no increase in its 1,551-ton daily limit. Here…
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Grannus Ammonia Plant in Kern County: Site Plan Cleared Without a Hearing
A Tucson clean-tech developer is back at the South Kern Industrial Center with a by-right plan to make hydrogen and ammonia, ten years after its first Kern plant…
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California City Detention Facility Sale: CoreCivic Sells the 2,560-Bed Facility to the Federal Government for $732.6 Million
CoreCivic sold the 2,560-bed California City Detention Facility to the United States, through the Department of Homeland Security, for $732.6 million on July 2, 2026. This report covers…
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Shafter Housing Element Rezoning: 345 Acres and 1,836 Units of New Capacity Go to an Oct. 6 Study Session
To finish its state-required housing rezoning by March 2027, the City of Shafter proposes higher-density housing on 12 mostly prime-farmland parcels and a net cut in planned nonresidential…
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Bakersfield Temple on Stockdale Highway: What Is Proposed and Where Approval Stands
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wants a zone modification for a 123.5-foot steeple on 13 acres at Stockdale Highway and Jewetta Avenue in west Bakersfield.…