The Table sets opening date next week

A restaurant at a long-vacant flour mill site in north Springfield is scheduled to open next week after plans were first introduced in 2022 and a groundbreaking was held last year.

Sisters Sheri Perkins and Renee Textor, co-owners of the 610 N. Prospect Ave. restaurant called The Table, cut the ribbon on the casual-dining concept during a ceremony held yesterday. The restaurant is scheduled to open to customers on Oct. 20, said Textor.

"This is a dream for us. We've dreamed for years, probably our whole lives," Perkins said during the ceremony. "We want to make Springfield proud of us and proud of this place."

In an interview at the event, Perkins told Springfield Business Journal that The Table would employ 22 people to start and that the restaurant would serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. Noting the menu has been completed and likely would be released before the opening date, she teased offerings such as biscuits and gravy, quinoa bowls, a double smash burger, ribeye and salmon.

"It's really just recipes we have cooked our whole lives and now are just sharing," Perkins said.

The project cost landed at more than $2 million, she said.

SBJ previously reported that Grindstone Construction LLC was general contractor for the 4,200-square-foot restaurant designed by H Design Group LLC. At the site, a 13-story mill and adjoining silo building built in 1901 have been out of operation since the 1970s. The restaurant is perpendicular to National Avenue and facing Chestnut Expressway, butting up against the larger of the two buildings on the site. 

Springfield City Council in May 2024 approved a redevelopment plan and declaration of blight at the property, providing 25 years of tax abatement, according to past reporting. The Table also received $85,000 from the municipality’s Micro-enterprise Loan Program/Business Incentive Loan Program, which offers a 5% fixed interest rate.