After operating for four years, DIY maker’s space the Lemon Collective is closing its Petworth location on February 29.

The group, which has hosted art shows, workshops, and events for the past year on Upshur Street, and three years on Georgia Avenue NW before that, will transition to hosting private workshops and classes at clients’ locations.

Founded by three business owners in separate creative spaces, the Lemon Collective (previously the Lemon Bowl) has held near-nightly classes by outside teachers—from modern calligraphy, to interior design, to sewing classes for queer and trans people who want to make clothes that don’t adhere so rigidly to gender constructs.

“We love our community and the people we’ve met. We’re not closing up shop, just transitioning focus,” says co-founder Holley Simmons, who leads the space’s terrarium-making events. The Lemon Collective helped set the trend for community-focused maker’s spaces, a void now filled by businesses like Steadfast Supply and Shop Made In DC.

“We’re so happy to see the city just explode with options for people, and we’re really proud of that,” Simmons says. “We’d like to think that we helped pave the way for people.”

Upshur Street has faced several business closures over the last year or so, most recently Petworth Citizen (which is being reincarnated as a bookstore-bar hybrid). Simmons says the move isn’t prompted by rent hikes, but has more to do with the desire not to have a home base where the heat and lights break, and the space sits vacant during the day. “After four years of refilling toilet paper, there’s just got to be a better model,” Simmons says.

The transition means that Simmons and her partners—illustrator Kathryn Zaremba and interior decorator Linny Giffin—will have to be more flexible in their business practices, focusing more on corporate events, bachelorette parties, and restaurants that have expressed an interest in Lemon Collective.

“We love going into organizations and working with a group of people that all know each other—it’s really fun to see,” Simmons says. “You’d be surprised how competitive people can make terrarium making.”

Simmons will continue running her flower shop She Loves Me next door. While potential tenants have expressed interest in the Lemon Collective space, nothing is definite just yet, but she hopes the next occupants “will be another community-centered space.”

This story has been updated to remove a reference to DC Reynolds, which is not located on Upshur Street.