A 50-plus-year-old building that sits on the east side of Fashion Fair Mall is on the brink of demolition.
For decades, it was a symbol of retail shopping in Fresno and housed some of the city’s largest department stores.
The signage was visible from across the center’s parking lot: Weinstock’s in the 1970s, then Gottschalk’s and most recently Forever 21, until its closure last year. Even vacant, the building maintains an air of nostalgia, with its stacked concrete design, done in the late modernist, almost brutalist, style…