Beacon Park’s Flagship Restaurant Gets Light-Inspired Name

The flagship restaurant slated to anchor DTE’s soon-to-open Beacon Park officially has a name: Lumen. The moniker revealed late last week is Latin for “light” and a clear homage to the utility company that’s developing the property.

In May, DTE confirmed that the food services at the park — located at Cass and Grand River Avenue — would be helmed by metro Detroit restaurateurs Norman, Bonnie, Scott, and Suzanne LePage. The LePage family operates several well-known restaurants and breweries including Big Rock Chophouse, Griffin Claw Brewing Company, and Clubhouse BFD.

The 4,000-square-foot Lumen with its distinctive swooping sustainable roof will offer a blend of brasserie and Belgian-style beer garden food alongside Griffin Claw Brewing Company brews, Norman LePage states in a release.

The restaurant is expected to seat roughly 85 diners indoors with 125 seats on the patio. Ever-popular retractable Nana Walls will also open up in warm weather for an indoor-outdoor experience inside the restaurant. The roof itself will feature outdoor seating while also collecting water runoff. Lumen is on track to debut in spring 2018. The larger park area will also offer space for food trucks.

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Meanwhile, Curbed reports that the 1.5 acre Beacon Park is poised to debut on July 20 through 23 with live music, a beer garden, a gospel brunch, a night market, and more. Stay tuned for more updates on Lumen.

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