Downtown Crazy Coop closes, takes planned French restaurant down with it
“I never got any tenant-improvement money,” Crazy Coop owner Darius Buckner said about a common leasing practice in which landlords provide tenants a stipend to make functional or aesthetic changes to a space. (The Daily Memphian file)
After less than a year of The Crazy Coop calling Downtown home, owner Darius Buckner has closed that location.
“If the rent wasn’t so high …” Buckner said in explanation.
The restaurant permanently closed its doors on Madison Avenue on Jan. 9. For the past 11 months, Buckner said the restaurant struggled to attract a consistent customer base among Downtown residents and workers as well as guests from the adjacent Hu Hotel.
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Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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