The Corp has recently received project approvals to move forward on their newest venture, a café in the Davis Performing Arts Center, according to Corp CEO Ryan Callahan (SFS ‘10). Callahan predicts that the new venue will be open by late October or early November.

The new café will serve full meals and is being worked on in cooperation with the Davis Center in attempt to make the building more of a “cultural hub” on campus (the Davis Center and the Corp are splitting the costs upfront). According to Callahan, the menu for the café is not yet set, but will probably include sandwiches, breakfast foods and possibly Sweetgreen-style frozen yogurt.

The Corp hopes that the new café will have strong cultural programming, with a performance area that could be used for open-mic nights, a cappella groups, or staging promotional scenes for campus productions (if the café takes Uncommon Grounds’ mantle as the “artsy” Corp venue, UG might work on being more oriented towards the new business school, Callahan said).

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