Name a commercial retail space that would be ideal for a new restaurant franchise in Redding?
Huckleberry’s Breakfast & Lunch, which dubs itself “Southern cookin’ with a California Twist!,” hopes to open here early next year.
Recently I spoke with Huckleberry’s spokeswoman Reem Fahoum who told me that the chain has a goal of opening in Redding within six months.
“Redding has been asking for it for a while, so we are happy we got a franchisee in that area,” Fahoum said.
She said the company is currently scouting potential sites and could select one soon.
Huckleberry’s has 33 locations in California, including several in the greater Sacramento area. The restaurant also has a location in Reno.
The franchise was established in 2008.
The drink menu includes the Bayou Bloody Mary, Huck’s Signature Mimosa, Huck’s Swamp Tea and Huckleberry Lemonade.
For food, breakfast offerings include waffles with a Huckleberry twist, corn beef, omelets, half-pound chicken fried steak and half-pound ribeye steak, both with eggs.
Louisiana catfish, catfish po-boy, bacon club, Monte Cristo, and Dixieland steak melt are part of the lunch menu. There are also burgers, soups and salads.
Fahoum said their franchisees typically like to retrofit an existing building rather than build new.
“For the most part it’s more economical for the franchisee to go into what was a previous restaurant, it has a hood, the grease trap, the walk-in cooler, all the things,” Fahoum said.
New Shasta County Courthouse eyes opening
Officials are getting ready to start the massive move across Court Street to the new Shasta County Courthouse.
It’s been a long time coming.
“The latest is we are supposed to get our certificate of occupancy on Oct. 27 and I think that means that we will actually begin the physical move,” Court Executive Officer Melissa Fowler-Bradley said.
She said it will take at least six weeks to move, which will be done in phases. So don’t expect trials to take place in the new facility until late December or early January.
Site work on the $170 million courthouse started in late 2018. The six-story building sits on a 2-acre lot bounded by Court, Oregon, Butte and Yuba streets.
The opening has been pushed back more than once, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused supply-chain delays, among other things.
Fowler-Bradley told me that before the courthouse opens there will be a ceremony that unveil some special items in the new lobby.
One of the displays will be the Lady of Justice statue that once stood atop the 1889 Shasta County Courthouse. There also will be pictures of the old courthouse in the new lobby.