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The East African restaurant Buraka, displaced from its State Street home for a large campus housing and retail development, is opening within the next two weeks on Willy Street.

Owner Markos Regassa had planned to open as early as this past summer, but encountered a series of setbacks he'd rather not focus on now. "I don't want to blame anybody," he said.

Regassa met with a fire inspector Monday morning and was expecting a building inspector as he talked to the State Journal in the afternoon.

He expects to have a grand opening the weekend of March 4, but allows that there may be a soft opening before then. "I just want everything to be correct," he said.

"It's stressful," Regassa said. "It will feel good in a couple of months when everything turns out to be right and things flow as normal as possible."

He's just glad to have gotten through the construction phase, he said. "Now it's the stress of running the business side and having everything right. It will be fine. I am excited."