PS37, the popular event space in Durham’s Central Park district, will close at the end of 2025.
Though it’s popularly known as a hot spot for dance parties, it didn’t start off that way. Griffin Wade opened PS37 in 2019 as a maker space with Tom Rau and Chance Griffin. In 2022 Lauren Hussey became a partner. Wade is a cabinet maker by day, and he used part of the space as a workshop. He and Hussey also rented the space out to painters, glass workers, ceramicists and other creatives in the Durham community.
As the pandemic hit, business started to slow down. In 2021, in order to give people a space to gather, they started hosting outdoor events at the venue. These events were doing well, and Wade and Hussey figured it was a better idea to continue down that road rather than to try to re-open as a maker space…