Provost & Pritchard finds a home in Downtown Visalia

Clovis-based Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group has purchased the former Visalia Community Bank building in Downtown Visalia and is remodeling it for its new offices there.

The 13,000 square-foot, multi-story building at Floral Street and Center Avenue features a 25 car parking garage attached. Donald Ikemiya, chief strategy officer for the longtime company, said the big space will offer room for up to 60, allowing continued expansion of the mult-discipline development company.

“We have over 40 employees in Visalia now, but we are running out of room” at their leased office at Garden and Main streets.

Visalia Community Bank merged with Central Valley Community Bank a few years back and decided to relocate their Downtown Visalia offices to Center Avenue and Locust Street and put the old building up for sale.

Today, that bank has again merged and carries the name Community West Bank at 126 W Center Ave.

Launched as a partnership of engineers Jim Provost and Paul Pritchard in Fresno in 1968, the company has grown to include civil engineering, agricultural solutions, water resources management, environmental consulting, structural engineering, roof consulting and design, hydrogeology, GIS, surveying, caves and tunnels expertise, planning, biological studies and construction management.

Clients include those busy in agriculture and irrigation, public works and the private sector. The company is well known in farming circles  and Ikemiya looks forward to hosting clients at the new location with free city parking across the street. The building will include large conference rooms and plans for an outside deck. The company is busy in the Visalia Industrial Park as well having worked for the development firm CapRock to bring in the two Amazon centers now located here.

Ikemiya said there are also plans to paint a mural along the alley to the rear of the building, and they expect to continue to allow the Sequoia Symphony Orchestra to use the underground parking garage for their shows at the Fox Theater. The old bank vault will be repurposed as a printer room.

Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group has locations in Bakersfield, Visalia, Clovis, Modesto, Sacramento, Sonora, Los Banos, Chico, Boise and San Luis Obispo. The team includes 300 employees in nine offices.

“Although we have been part of Downtown Visalia for a long time now, we will now be owning our office here. It’s an easy ride from anywhere to our new office and once you get here you can walk everywhere,” said Ikemiya.

Ikemiya expects the remodel of the building at 120 N. Floral St. should be complete and ready for occupancy by April 2025.

Downtown Visalia is also home to other significant development firms including 4Creeks, TETER and Qk. As much as Visalia is the ag and banking headquarters for Tulare County, downtown is also home to hundreds of skilled professionals who help guide development for the  farm, dairy, water, civic and industrial sectors for the region.