Business

Gilroy Premium Outlets announced the recent addition of new retailers including Champion and the California Welcome Center, now open, to its property. Luxury retailer Cole Haan is set to open in May. “We’re always looking to bring in new, fresh shopping options for our customers,”...

Walmart’s Gilroy and Morgan Hill locations will join 18 other stores across the state as part of the retail giant’s $145 million remodel plan. “The investments in California stores Walmart has planned this year demonstrate our commitment to our customers and the communities where we...

Sumano’s Bakery will remodel a dilapidated building near the entrance to downtown Gilroy and move its operations from Watsonville in the spring of 2020. The Gilroy Planning Commission unanimously approved the bakery’s permit to remodel the 23,000-square-foot facility at 7050 Monterey Road near 10th Street...

The Gilroy Planning Commission is recommending an ordinance that aims to promote a “good neighbor” policy for businesses and residents downtown. The commission voted 6-1 for the new ordinance April 4, with Commissioner Casey Estorga dissenting. The ordinance will now head to the city council...

Germains Seed Technology, one of Gilroy’s core agribusiness companies, announced the completion of a new organic automated seed processing facility at Swanston Lane and the opening of a second research and development laboratory nearby on Casey Street, just east of downtown near Leavesley Road. The...

Uesugi Farms has harvested its last crops. The large, well-known, family-owned vegetable producer with operations in California—Santa Clara, Contra Costa, San Benito and other counties—and Mexico, is selling off all of its equipment and “winding down” its operations. There will be no spring planting of...

At the corner of West Sixth Street and Eigleberry in downtown Gilroy, a venerable old but beloved building is in need of a makeover. The Gilroy Veterans Memorial Hall, home of American Legion Post 217 and the John A. Berri Veterans of Foreign Wars Post...

Lettuce growers along the Central Coast, including San Benito County, were in the cross-hairs of federal investigators Monday, Nov. 26, less than a week after the government warned consumers, grocers and restaurants nationwide to destroy all romaine lettuce. In a statement, the U.S. Food and...

Black Friday was Green Friday at the Gilroy Premium Outlets. Get ready, get set, shop. The Christmas shopping season is on, and on Black Friday, Nov. 23, the "National Day of Shopping," thousands of bargain hunters descended on the Gilroy Premium Outlets to kick off...

On the east side of the railroad tracks in old Gilroy, in an old square brick building that used to be a PG&E substation, kids spend the night punching each other in the face. Usually, that means trouble. But at Stick and Move Boxing, the...