{"id":16300,"date":"2020-05-01T15:01:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=16300"},"modified":"2020-05-03T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-03T14:15:34","slug":"great-scott-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2020\/05\/01\/great-scott-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Is With A Heavy Heart Today That I Announce That Great Scott Will Not Reopen\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt is with a heavy heart today that I announce that Great Scott will not reopen,\u201d according to a message from Tim Philbin, the Boston rock club’s long-time manager, posted on facebook,<\/a>\u00a0instagram and twitter this afternoon.<\/p>\n

The venue, located at 1222 Commonwealth Ave., Allston, had been closed since mid-March as part of community efforts to stem the spread of coronavirus. “After several weeks of dormancy, the venue was informed by its building landlords that its lease would not be renewed,” Michael Marotta reports at Vanyaland.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The landlords were willing to extend the lease if we would not do live music anymore,” booker Carl Lavin tells Luke O’Neil<\/a>. “They were open to extending the lease for two years. Frank was like I don\u2019t have the money to pay to keep it open [during the shutdown]. … He\u2019d have to borrow it to stay in business just long enough to be forced out in two years anyway and still have this loan.”<\/p>\n