<div>The Dawn Theater will sell coffee and cocktails in its Speakeasy Coffee Lounge, according to a plan by its new management team to reimagine the historic theater as a day-and-night community-building space.Speakeasy LLC, the Dawn’s new management team, is an event business hosted in the Dawn Theater and operated by the Hillsdale-based consulting group Jason Walters & Associates. According to Jason Walters, who oversees the planning and operations of the project, Speakeasy Coffee Lounge was born out of a hope to bring people into the Dawn during every day of the week.“We envisioned a coffee lounge by day and a cocktail lounge by night, with the theater continuing to host live events,” Walters said.The Speakeasy planning team currently includes Walters and Ad Astra owner Jackson Busby, who works as the food and beverage manager on the project. Busby said the group has been brainstorming events they’d like to host to make the space available to the community, and events in partnership with his coffee company are included in the offerings.“We want to be able to host weddings and fundraising events, galas, there could be comedy shows and plays of course,” Busby said. “We also want to be able to open a daily coffee house, and I’ll be slinging coffees of course, and it’ll be the only local coffee shop that supplies Ad Astra.”Walters said that among his work as the food and beverage manager, Busby will also work as the day-to-day manager of the theater.“He’s a bright young man with years of experience running a coffeehouse, and I’m excited to see what he brings to the Dawn,” Walters said.According to Busby, the company has not solidified a first event, but is still working on getting a liquor license and adjusting the Dawn Theater to suit the Speakeasy’s needs and working with the Friends of the Dawn nonprofit dedicated to the support and fundraising of the historic building.“The opportunity to use the Dawn as our venue came up about six months ago, and we worked together to put together a proposal that the Friends of the Dawn liked. It’s been a lot of meetings and business plans and renderings to get to the point where we are now,” Busby said. “We wanted to put together a business plan that was so entirely community based because it’s a building that deserves to be used by the community and bring joy to the community.”Though the group has settled on name and branding, opening is still in the works, according to Walters.“We don’t have an opening date or first event date to announce yet,” Walters said.</div>

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The Dawn Theater will sell coffee and cocktails in its Speakeasy Coffee Lounge, according to a plan by its new management team to reimagine the historic theater as a day-and-night community-building space. Speakeasy LLC, the Dawn’s new management team, is an event business hosted in the Dawn Theater and operated...

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