Last weekend, the Somerhill Gallery held its soft-opening in its new downtown Durham digs, having relocated from a Chapel Hill shopping center to the Bull City's Venable Center, a redevelopment by Scientific Properties just east of the future County Courthouse site.
The folks at Somerhill have posted a video account of opening day; if you haven't been to the Somerhill yet, it's a great way to see the beautiful, light-filled interior of the converted industrial space.
It also may be home to a new restaurant soon. Somerhill's owner, Joe Rowand, makes the intriguing announcement a couple of minutes into the video that the space next to him in the Receiving Room secton of the Venable will be home to a new restaurant to be announced shortly:
"And I think... soon they're going to announce a restaurant next door soon. I think that's pretty fabulous. It's in my lease that it can only be a restaurant, and I think we're getting close... But there's so many nice new restaurants, every day at lunch it's, where can I go today?"
Look for the Somerhill to hold its grand opening in July, currently targeted for the 12th. And check out the video on YouTube for a preview of the gallery:
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