The curtain over the Warehouse Arts Complex that we’ve watched being pulled down by enormous tax hikes and aggressive developers around the new Convention Center is, sadly, finally scheduled to fall, at least in part. City Desk reports today that the Warehouse Next Door, site of off-the-wall, sometimes experimental music events, as well as the Bar & Cafe will close for good on July 30.

The venue takes its usual summer break over August, and will reopen its theater and art gallery come September, as Paul Ruppert tells us, “because running the theater and gallery require less day-to-day participation than the cafe and the daily music shows, and we need to spend our energies searching for a new location.” The Rupperts are keeping their ears to the ground, talking to anyone with information about a possible new home, and recently looked at places in Bloomingdale and Columbia Heights this past weekend.

No doubt we’re taking this especially hard. Less than 12 hours ago we had a successful photographer’s meet-up in the Bar & Cafe, held at the Warehouse so we could reminisce over our first amazing gallery show and how the photographers fell in love with the character-filled house that barely held us up on its old wooden floors.

You might want to clear your calendar for July, when the Fringe Festival starts up, as the Warehouse plans on hosting over 100 performances over the week and a half run, and check back in September for a slew of shows for their last season on 7th Street. Paul echoed our thoughts, “We’ve enjoyed the 13 years we’ve been here, but times change and neighborhoods change, and we’re excited to see what a new place will bring.”

Photo by outdoor_type.