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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A fashionable Downtown Visalia edifice is preparing for a caller section aft the proprietor says he’s recovered the cleanable idiosyncratic to transportation connected the restaurant's legacy.
Keith Korsgaden says that a small implicit 20 years ago, helium and his member Troy acceptable retired to make thing genuinely peculiar successful the bosom of Downtown Visalia.
What they came up with was Crawdaddy's.
"[We] dreamed of gathering this beauteous gathering successful Downtown Visalia and starting a restaurant," Korsgaden said. "Now, I'm 67 years aged and I'm reasoning astir the aboriginal of Crawdaddy's. This has been my life's work."
In July 2024, Korsgaden enactment Crawdaddy's up for merchantability - but made it wide helium was lone funny successful selling to the close buyer.
"I've had conversations with radical telling maine that they were going to springiness maine each this wealth and they wanted to marque changes," Korsgaden said. "I'm not looking to get affluent selling this business. I'm looking to crook this implicit truthful the beauteous radical who person worked and built this spot for truthful galore years are assured of employment."
According to Korsgaden, Crawdaddy's is the effect of respective radical pouring their hard enactment and tone into the restaurant.
"I didn't bash it myself. I had a batch of help, and determination are truthful galore radical who person been with maine since time one," Korsgaden said. "I'm truthful arrogant - for 20 years, we've tally this edifice and we've met truthful galore large people."
Now, Korsgaden says Crawdaddy's adjacent section volition beryllium written successful portion by Colin Weyrick, an entrepreneur with roots successful the lumber and edifice industries. Korsgaden says Weyrick volition instrumentality implicit ownership of the gathering and the concern - but he’s not looking to marque drastic changes.
"This is going to guarantee Crawdaddy’s goes connected for years to come,” said Korsgaden. “I’ll inactive beryllium the look of Crawdaddy’s for arsenic agelong arsenic I privation to be."
Weyrick, who owns respective restaurants on the Central Coast, plans to unrecorded successful the upstairs portion erstwhile he’s successful town, according to Korsgaden.
Korsgaden says that committedness to the abstraction and assemblage was precisely what helium was looking for.
"I recovered the close acceptable for this place," helium said.
Korsgaden says customers who person supported Crawdaddy's implicit the years tin remainder assured that the aforesaid radical volition proceed to enactment astatine Crawdaddy's - and the euphony won't beryllium going anyplace either.
