Avant Gardner LLC, the bankrupt proprietor of the Brooklyn membership complicated of the identical identify, has utilized for a allow to demolish the Mirage venue, Brooklyn Paper reports. Having didn’t safe reopening permits attributable to security and technical points, Avant Gardner filed for Chapter 11 chapter in August and handed its property to a lender. The demolition allow submitting doesn’t identify the Mirage however seeks to demolish 32,000 sq. toes of a three-story momentary construction, which describes the Mirage construct inside Avant Gardner, Brooklyn Paper studies. The complicated’s different venues, Nice Corridor and Kings Corridor, stay operational for now. Pitchfork has emailed Avant Gardner for remark.
The Mirage opened as a pop-up venue in 2015 and shortly turned an East Williamsburgh nightlife vacation spot. A much-touted renovation led to a scramble to shortly reopen the venue, however New York’s Division of Buildings deemed the venue structurally unsound and a hearth hazard.
