My fiancee's sister lives in Fresno, so we've headed that way many times. Since your most likely staying around KFAT, then your not too far from Old Town Clovis. The northeastern part of Fresno is much nicer, Herndon is a major east/west thoroughfare on the north side, and where it intersects with the 41 freeway is the River Park shopping center that has P.F. Changs, In N Out Burger and some other national chain restaurants...
Central Valley the armpit if California?!?! Feels like it now with all the smoke from the Nor Cal fires settling into the Valley, visibility from Bakersfield to Redding has been 3 miles at best all week, and it's that way from the surface to over 7000ft