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Wonderful Real Estate Development has unveiled plans to expand its Shafter industrial park with the addition of a 61,000-square-foot corporate office complex, a 37,200-square-foot vocational training center and a restaurant measuring 8,500 square feet.

 Rendering courtesy of Wonderful Real Estate Development

One of Kern's largest employers announced Thursday it will expand its presence in the southern Central Valley through the addition of corporate offices, a training center and related facilities at a retail distribution complex it owns in Shafter.

Los Angeles-based The Wonderful Co. said the 61,000 square feet in corporate offices it will build at the Wonderful Industrial Park by spring 2022 will accommodate more than 200 of its employees in local real estate development as well as fruit and nut production. The space is slated to include a wellness center with a gym offering exercise classes.