Solid Rock moving to new digs
Solid Rock Photos is planning to move to 121 W. 3rd Street, Dover, in the Rausch building, next to Renaissance Salon. The space is most commonly remembered as the longtime law offices of Woodard & Bohse.“We are now in the process of a complete renovation and look for a March 1 opening,” said Solid Rock owner Suzanne Trimmer. “Our new studio represents nearly double the floor space of our existing location, and the storefront near two of Dover’s busiest shops (Renaissance and Bread Head Bakery) made the spot especially enticing for us.”
The new studio location will include a welcome area and gallery, along with a large staff work area and private offices in addition to a separate sales and consultation area. When the space is completed, it will be more than double the shooting space of the company’s current location, and “version 2.0” of the Solid Rock’s Rockstar Dressing Room.
“The way this business has grown has been a complete blessing to us,” noted Trimmer. “From very humble beginnings, starting in the basement of our home and evolving into what it has become has been a great ride – but we are just getting started. We are poised to provide our Rockstar experience at an even higher level with this move.”
The Solid Rock experience will now include fresh baked sweets from neighboring Bread Head Bakery.
With a vacant photography studio just a few doors down, Trimmer said the decision to choose a nontraditional space over an existing studio space was easy to make. “We do things differently. Our business model is not that of most traditional studio photographers. We didn’t want to be pigeonholed for doing things a certain way just because the previous occupants did.”
Solid Rock will continue to operate from its current location in the 2nd Street Interiors building in Dover until Feb. 28.