This Fresno brewery and restaurant is opening its fourth location. Here’s where and when
Mad Duck Craft Brewing Co., the longtime locally owned brewery and restaurant, is moving ahead with its fourth location.
This one will be built at the northwest corner of Copper and Maple avenues in Fresno.
It will be in Copper River Marketplace, a new development by Granville Homes near Copper River Ranch. Plans call for the center to potentially include a car wash and veterinary clinic, along with other services.
That includes Mad Duck, which will be on the hard corner.
Construction is expected to start soon, and the business could open by the end of this year or early next year, said owner Alex Costa.
Food and beer
This location won’t have a brewery. But it will still be a brewpub, with plenty of Mad Duck beer on tap, including its top-selling Honey Pot Blonde ale.
“This one will be focused on just being a restaurant,” Costa said.
It will be about the same size as the location at Campus Pointe near Fresno State. But since that one has a brewery and Copper River doesn’t, the new location will have more room for dining.
It will sell its popular “mad burger,” along with favorites like its sweet potato fries, a Nashville hot chicken sandwich and lots of appetizers and finger foods to pair with beer.
Mad Duck will take up 6,000 square feet of a 7,800-square-foot building. The other renter in the building has not been announced yet.
The restaurant will employ 75 to 80 people, Costa said.
Granville planned to celebrate the beginning of construction at the center Friday morning.
Mad Duck locations
Mad Duck started in Clovis 14 years ago. It’s Herndon Avenue location is still there, and it also has locations at Marks and Herndon avenues and Campus Pointe in Fresno.
“We have very, very little presence in northeast Fresno,” Costa said.
There are so many people living in Copper River and nearby neighborhoods, and there’s not a quick way to get from there to Mad Duck’s various locations, he noted.
“In that area, it’s a bit of trek, so we wanted to make sure we were available to everyone out there,” he said.
This story was originally published March 3, 2023 at 10:23 AM.
