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The Forestiere Underground Gardens

Natural Building

Tucked underground in Fresno, California, is an amazing cavernous creation carved by one industrious Italian Immigrant named Baldassare Forestiere. Known as the Forestiere Underground Gardens , the estate is now open to the public to inspect, and is well worth the trip.

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Construction Equipments

The Constructor

Sometimes a bulldozer is used to push another piece of earthmoving equipment known as a "scraper" The towed Fresno Scraper, invented in 1883 by James Porteous, was the first design to enable this to be done economically, removing the soil from the cut and depositing it elsewhere on shallow ground (fill).

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STATE INCENTIVES GUIDE

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

The cities of Fresno, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, San Francisco, Orange Cove, Parlier, and the counties of Imperial and Riverside have designated RCs, EZs or ECs. FOREIGN TRADE ZONES (FTZs): Secured areas legally outside of U.S. Livestock” means domesticated food animals, other than fish and wild game animals.

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