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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Visalia Heritage is moving connected an ambitious $6 cardinal task to alteration an iconic gathering into a depository that volition archer the communicative of the "older assemblage betwixt Los Angeles and Stockton."
The task volition dwell of repurposing The Depot to alteration it into a depository and taste halfway for arts, civilization and history. It volition besides service arsenic a location for Visit Visalia, a venue for taste events, a tapas barroom and more.
Located astatine 207 E. Oak Ave., The Depot was a bid presumption built successful 1916 that was aboriginal transformed into The Depot Restaurant successful 1971 aft World War II, erstwhile it stopped serving passengers.
The Depot has remained vacant since shutting down during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the Visalia Heritage is moving to acquisition the iconic gathering and renovate it. However, Visalia Heritage says to marque this task a possibility, they request to unafraid $6 cardinal successful funding; so, they released the "All Aboard Visalia" campaign, a $6 cardinal run that is expected to unafraid backing for the purchase, renovation and archetypal programming of "this assemblage past museum."
"This task volition sphere each that has gone into this large assemblage and the radical who made it that way. All generations tin spot what the country has meant to truthful galore of america and wherefore it is truthful important to treasure it and physique it adjacent stronger," said Stan Simpson, who Visalia Heritage said was the archetypal large donor to this project.
Gifts to the run tin beryllium received successful the signifier of three-year pledges and one-time gifts. Visalia Heritage says gifts successful the signifier of "appreciated securities and gifts-in-kind" are invited arsenic well, and that naming, honoring and memorial gifting is besides disposable to donors.
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