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VIDEO: Pub Owner Raises Money For 'Finishing Touches'

His plan is to open the pub, which will be named Griffins of Kinsale, by early May. But he's asking for the community's support to make it happen.

Joe Griffin, the owner of South Pasadena's soon-to-be-open Irish pub, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help expedite the process.

And he's had luck—raising almost $6,000 in just one night.

The money will be used for "finishing touches," he says in his Kickstarter video above. 

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"This is authentic ... the way I have done things has been very thoughtful," he explains. "[The] Kickstarter [campaign] will pay for the barware, beautiful chandeliers I want to hang, crown molding..."

Griffin began renovating the space at 1007 Mission Street about a year and a half ago: "When I started, I stripped this place down to  bare concrete, and everything that's in here now has a meaning and a purpose."

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His plan is to open the pub, , by early May. But he's asking for the community's support to make it happen. 

"I've had so many people stop me on the street and ask me about our opening date, I figured we had to find a way to get folks involved," said Griffin.

He's calling the project "Launch the Griffin." 

People can donate as little as $1 or as much as $10,000, and the pub offers rewards at various levels, from a pewter tankard that will be filled each time you come to the pub to sending a supporter on a pub tour of Ireland.

You can donate HERE

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