AUBURN – The Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center is scheduled to open as Auburn students return for the fall semester on June. 16.The facility includes the Hey Day Market and rooftop lounge and gardens, which will open on June. 15. The teaching restaurant, 1856, will open June. 17, while The Laurel Hotel and Spa, a luxury hotel, will open on June. 29.Todd Scholl, director of sales and marketing at the Auburn University Hotel and Conference Center, said the culinary center is a public-private partnership: the building, which is owned by the university, will house the hospitality management program in the college of human sciences.
