Reclaimed Mountain Goods Relocates to Fresno, Plans Storefront Soon With Community Support

Lijah Castillo Pura, owner of Reclaimed Mountain Goods, is relocating her reclaimed-and-upcycled goods shop from Madera County to Fresno after a landlord declined to renew her lease, and she says the transition to a Fresno storefront has taken less than a month. Castillo Pura described the change as sudden but supported by customers who became friends, saying, "Rejection is redirection. And everything up from that point to where we are right now which has been less than a month has happened fluidly and beautifully."

The business began online in 2020, Castillo Pura told reporters, when she "started an Instagram page, utilized a spare office in my home, started out with just thrifting and posting things for sale on that page, and then it's grown organically into what it is today." She traced the shop's physical history to a first brick-and-mortar in what an automated transcript labeled "Coors Gold" and later operations in the city of Madera, before the most recent lease nonrenewal forced the move to Fresno in early 2026.

Castillo Pura emphasized community labor in the relocation, noting that "all of the friends that have shown up for me have started off as customers in my store" and that she and "the community she's built over the past 6 years are working around the clock to reopen in Fresno." She asked not to have her face shown on camera during the interview and framed the shop as intentionally noncorporate: "This isn't a pizza party corporate kind of place. In this place, few people feel we care." She also said "sustainability is definitely big for us" and described an aspiration for the Fresno storefront to be "the third place and safe space for everybody."

The shop reports a sizable online presence that helped mobilize the move: the owner or reporter noted Reclaimed Mountain Goods has more than 10,000 followers on social media. The local television video of Castillo Pura's interview was posted to a station's YouTube channel on Feb. 22, 2026; at the time the post snapshot was captured the clip showed 443 views, 13 likes and the channel listed 71,700 subscribers. Digital reporter credit in syndicated copies appears under the name Marco Rosas or Marco Rosa in different captions.

Several details remain unfilled in public reporting: no exact Fresno storefront address, lease terms, or opening date were provided in the on-camera segment, and sources show inconsistent spellings for the owner's name and the business name across captions and transcripts. Castillo Pura and the neighbors who helped move the shop are, for now, focused on converting the online-following and a grassroots volunteer effort into a physical location in Fresno "soon" as they rebuild after the landlord's decision.