VIDEO: Pub Owner Raises Money For 'Finishing Touches'

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. 

"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."

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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