Avant Gardner LLC, the bankrupt proprietor of the Brooklyn membership advanced of the identical title, has utilized for a allow to demolish the Mirage venue, Brooklyn Paper reports. Having did not safe reopening permits resulting from 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 title the Mirage however seeks to demolish 32,000 sq. ft of a three-story momentary construction, which describes the Mirage construct inside Avant Gardner, Brooklyn Paper studies. The advanced’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 rapidly grew to become an East Williamsburgh nightlife vacation spot. A much-touted renovation led to a scramble to rapidly reopen the venue, however New York’s Division of Buildings deemed the venue structurally unsound and a hearth hazard.
