Crepes, coffee and cocktail bar opening at American Tobacco Campus
Press, a coffeehouse, creperie and cocktail bar from Graham, will open its second location at the American Tobacco Campus later this month. Press will open July 28 at 359 Blackwell St., serving coffees, crepes, salads, sandwiches and craft cocktails. Press will be open for breakfast and lunch daily, serving brunch on the weekends. The original […]
Happy Birthday, Book Harvest!
In celebration of their 10th Birthday, Book Harvest held a community block party on Diamond View Park on Saturday, July 17 from 1-4 pm. Despite the 103-degree real feel, an estimated 2,000 adults and children enjoyed the event. Entertainment included a chalk artist, The Bouncing Bull Dogs, Poetry Fox, Durham County Library Tech Mobile, Stormy […]
Book Harvest Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Free Block Party at American Tobacco on July 17th
Book Harvest will host a free block party that will serve as a community-wide celebration of kids, books, and the nonprofit’s 10th birthday on Saturday, July 17 from 1 to 4 p.m. at Diamond View Park on the American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham. The afternoon will be filled with family activities and celebratory birthday […]
What’s Up at American Tobacco: Scheduled Slate of Events Set for Remainder of 2021
Ready to experience an event? American Tobacco is looking to jump-start the events calendar later this summer. A few of the public/private events the ATC crew is currently working on include: July – Book Harvest Birthday Event August – Durham Night Market September – Durham Night Market September – Little Client Appreciation Night October – […]
What’s Up at American Tobacco: ATC Welcomes Back Tenants & Visitors
“We are Bullish on American Tobacco!” The ATC team has developed a new creative marketing plan to welcome back visitors and tenants. Banners and signs to help visitors and tenants not only feel comfortable on Campus but to encourage online and take-out orders at our restaurants. American Tobacco continues to kindly ask that you wear […]
What’s Up at American Tobacco: Restaurants and Retail Return
Hungry? American Tobacco restaurants are rebounding back after Covid-19. Like many businesses in the hospitality industry, they are struggling to find enough labor to open up fully and continue to rely on online and take-out orders to provide the best customer experience. Other ATC Restaurant/Retail news includes: Parker and Otis opened in late December and […]
What’s Up at American Tobacco: Refreshing Campus for Post-COVID Visitors
The entire American Tobacco Team is busy with a Campus-wide refresh project. Coming out of COVID, the ATC staff anticipates tenants and visitors desiring to use the outdoor spaces at an even higher level. Here is a brief list of some of the projects that the team is undertaking to welcome everyone back: The river […]
Bee Downtown Founder Leigh Kathryn Bonner Talks Bees, Having First Hives at CBC in NC State Alum Magazine
Leigh Kathryn Bonner, the founder of Bee Downtown, is featured as the cover story in the Spring 2021 issue of the NC State Alumni Association magazine. Written by Bill Krueger, “Meant To Bee” is presented in cartoon style by Monika Melnychuk. In the piece Bonner talks about her first customers, American Tobacco and Burts Bee’s, […]
American Tobacco Hosts Spring Scavenger Hunt for Families
American Tobacco hosted a Spring Scavenger Hunt filled with fun for families, the campus’ first event in over a year, on Saturday, April 3, 2021. The hunt officially celebrated the opening of ATC’s newest retail/restaurant tenant, Parker and Otis, drew traffic to other campus restaurants and benefited the Durham nonprofit Families Moving Forward. The six-station […]
ATC Restaurants Open, #TriangleTakeOutPledge
While we await better days, we encourage all who are able to join American Tobacco in taking the #TriangleTakeOutPledge. As shared by WRAL’s Out & About, the TriangleTakeOutPledge encourages all who have the means to “commit to takeout 1-2 times per week to help save our local, independent restaurants. With that, restaurant owners believe they can make […]