The highly anticipated sci-fi art installation Meow Wolf will not open a fourth location at the Art Place at Fort Totten.

The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the development company behind the project, told DCist Monday that the Santa Fe-based art collective is no longer attached to the project. Local blog Next Stop Riggs Park first reported the news.

“While no longer pursuing our original plans, Meow Wolf and the Cafritz Foundation remain excited about the vibrant creative community of Washington, D.C. and the vision for Art Place at Fort Totten,” a spokesperson for the company wrote in a statement. “We will keep open the option to work together in the coming years as we hope to find ways to honor each other’s social impact mission for the benefit of the metropolitan area.” Meow Wolf did not immediately respond to DCist’s request for comment.

Meow Wolf is an arts collective that specializes in psychedelic-infused installations, with locations in Santa Fe and Las Vegas, plus a Denver location slated for later this year. The group has garnered national attention and critical acclaim since its debut in 2008. (Baltimore natives Beach House even scored one of their exhibits.) Its move to D.C. would have made it the latest in a string of immersive art installations, such as ARTECHOUSE DC’s exhibits, the Hirshhorn Museum’s enormously popular Yayoi Kusama exhibit, and the Renwick Museum’s colorful, bug-filled Wonder in 2016.

Since it was announced in 2018, locals have awaited Meow Wolf’s Fort Totten installation, which was to be titled “House of Eternal Return.”. (At the time, it was expected to open in 2022.) Meow Wolf CEO Vince Kadlubek told DCist at the time that visitors would interact with the technicolor environment much like they do in Santa Fe, where they slide down a washing machine-turned-magical portal, ascend into a dayglow treehouse, or chat up cast members.

“We really like breaking the nature of reality,” Kadlubek told DCist in 2018. “In Santa Fe, we start off in a house but then you walk through these portals into other dimensions. It’s that whole trope of ‘I’m in the real world but then I’m in another world.’”

The Art Place at Fort Totten is a mixed-use development consisting of 305,000 square feet of retail, 929 multifamily residential units, and 170,000 square feet of cultural and art spaces, according to the project’s site. The first phase built 100,000 square feet of retail and 520 residential units in fall 2017. Phase two — where Meow Wolf was planned — will boast an Aldi, a food hall, a performance venue, and the Explore! Children’s Museum by 2024 (the D.C. Council awarded $1 million in future funding for the museum in 2018).

A spokesperson for the Cafritz Foundation tells DCist/WAMU it is currently seeking experiential art exhibitors to replace Meow Wolf and “add to this burgeoning art and cultural hub in Northeast DC.” It expects phase two will be completed in 2024.