After years of protests, campaigns, and consultation, a student-run café was finally opened on the third floor of the SSMU building, in the space previously occupied by Lola Rosa Xpress.
When the last student-run space on campus, the Architecture Café, was closed by the administration in 2010 due to unsubstantiated claims of “financial instability,” hundreds of students protested. For the next three years, SSMU took sporadic steps toward the opening of a new space. The 2011-12 SSMU executive set aside $200,000 for the café, and in 2012, a case competition was held to design a space.