PILSEN — After some-more than 6 years in Pilsen, a owners who founded renouned La Catrina Cafe in Pilsen are formulation to sell a coffee emporium and pierce to Mexico, they announced Thursday.
Diana Galicia and her father Salvador Corona, co-owners of a coffee emporium during 1011 W. 18th St., wrote they will “begin a routine of offered a café immediately” in a post on a shop’s Facebook page.
The family behind a dear cafeteria and entertainment place devise to pierce to Guanajuato City, Mexico, where they will open a village heart there.
“You guys showed us what we’re able of and we wish to move that to another partial of a universe who needs it as well,” a Facebook post read.
The cafeteria will sojourn open and Galicia and Corona will announce when they will leave a cafeteria during a after date.
“We are still open for business and will continue to be until we post a farewell date,” a post read.
The couple non-stop La Catrina in Mar 2013 and it fast became a entertainment place for residents in Pilsen.
“You guys have helped us emanate this pleasing village space, filled it with memories and adore for 7 years and we will always be grateful for that,” they wrote.
In March, Galicia and her father downsized a coffee emporium by behest farewell to a eventuality space and outside patio.
At a time, Galicia told Block Club “business had slowed down.”
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From a beginning, Galicia and Corona wanted a emporium to be a place where neighbors could meet. They stretched La Catrina to embody an eventuality space roughly 6 months after opening a strange shop.
Over a years, a cafe became a arguable mark for residents and area groups to horde meetings, open mic nights, museum performances, book readings and signings, and several markets — all for free. Galicia and Corona were also founders of a The Gabriel Project, an classification that directed to yield resources for young adult artists in memory of their son, Gabriel Cisneros, who died in 2016.
Following a proclamation that a family is relocating to Mexico, fans of a coffee emporium took to Facebook to offer support.
“Such a good space we all combined here in Pilsen. You will be severely missed! However, Guanajuato (one of my favorite cities) will be sanctified to have you. Best of fitness on your new journey!” one commenter wrote.
“I’ll be unhappy to see we go, appreciate we for being my favorite coffee emporium and creation my favorite iced coffee. I have a lot of good memories in your shop! another wrote.
“Thank we for all a support we have given to the communities. It has desirous munificence and collaboration,” another chairman said.
Galicia could not be reached for criticism on Thursday.
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