The scene in downtown Danville on the morning after a fire caused major damage to a strip-mall style building along East Prospect Avenue on the night of Oct. 20, 2025. (Photo by Jeremy Walsh) 
The scene in downtown Danville on the morning after a fire caused major damage to a strip-mall style building along East Prospect Avenue on the night of Oct. 20, 2025. (Photo by Jeremy Walsh) 
The scene in downtown Danville on the morning after a fire caused major damage to a strip-mall style building along East Prospect Avenue on the night of Oct. 20, 2025. (Photo by Jeremy Walsh) 
The scene in downtown Danville on the morning after a fire caused major damage to a strip-mall style building along East Prospect Avenue on the night of Oct. 20, 2025. (Photo by Jeremy Walsh) 
The scene in downtown Danville on the morning after a fire caused major damage to a strip-mall style building along East Prospect Avenue on the night of Oct. 20, 2025. (Photo by Jeremy Walsh)
A nighttime fire caused heavy damage to a strip mall-style commercial building in downtown Danville on Monday, closing a handful of local businesses indefinitely.
The cause of the blaze along East Prospect Avenue remains under investigation, as does the point of origin – although the two units most directly hit by flames and smoke were a neighboring eyelash studio and hair salon, according to the San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District.
The fire broke out just before 10 p.m. Monday (Oct. 20). “Heavy smoke and fire that was coming out of the main structure; you could view it from Prospect,” SRVFPD battalion chief Joe Bradley told DanvilleSanRamon about what the first-arriving firefighters observed.
The multi-unit commercial building is on the north side of East Prospect Avenue between Hartz Avenue and Front Street, behind the vacant former Starbucks and across the street from the Danville Senior Center and Veterans Memorial Building.
The Moda Mi clothing boutique is the building’s street-facing tenant, with Lashify Studio Danville, South Austin Lane and Taru Japanese Cuisine among the other units behind it.
“Crews arrived on scene and initiated an aggressive fire attack and were able to knock down the fire,” SRVFPD deputy chief Jonas Aguiar said.
The lash studio and the hair salon sustained the most damage inside from both flames and smoke, while neighboring units had some damage related to smoke and the firefight. The strip mall’s patio overhang and the building’s roof were also charred.
No injuries were reported, and none of the surrounding buildings in the tightly bunched block were damaged, Bradley said.
The smell of smoke and burnt debris were still prominent on the stretch of East Prospect nearly 12 hours later, as fire crews remained on the scene mopping up and conducting their investigation. Some of the businesses’ owners and workers were also on hand, and the sight caught the eye of many passersby in downtown Tuesday morning, including a field trip group from St. Isidore School.
All of the businesses in the damaged strip mall were closed Tuesday, with no confirmed reopening timeframe. The occupants would have to receive clearance from the town’s building inspector, Bradley noted.
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