UFO Factory Announces It Will Close for Good Later This Month #DetroitFood
The Corktown institution is teasing plans for the future
Longtime music venue/bar UFO Factory in Corktown is closing permanently later this month. In a post published on Instagram on Monday, June 3, the last day of operation will be Saturday, June 15.
“[It’s] been a real cool time but we are moving on to other projects — it’s time! [We] will miss the music, art, fun, and the #ufopeople most of all, of course,” reads part of the post.
The post went on to suggest the possibility of a future life for the location, which sits at 2110 Trumbull, teasing that all details would soon reveal themselves. “[What’s] next to come at 2110 Trumbull??? All will be revealed soon soon soon and fear not if you loved OUR #ufoFACTORY you are likely to be pleased with the next evolution,” the Instagram caption reads.
The venue, owned by Dion Fischer, Aliccia Bollig-Fischer, and Matthew Bihun, has become a bastion for live rock shows, its creative line of Laika Dog hot dogs and tater tots, its pink restrooms, and outdoor patio and rooftop deck (perfect for late-night people-watching). The owners acquired the space, formerly known as Hoot Robinson’s bar, in 2010 and the doors flung open as UFO Factory in 2014.
In 2017, a neighboring construction crew working on a $45 million development project smashed into the bar, resulting in the building being officially being declared unsafe for occupancy and condemned by the city and remaining shuttered for more than a year as the ownership made repairs.
The impending closure comes as much of of the city’s attention is centered on Corktown and Southwest Detroit, with the highly anticipated reopening of Michigan Central Station taking place Thursday, June 6. Ford Motor Company has spent nearly $1 billion and the past six years renovating the once long-neglected train station. The momentum at the historic site has sparked many changes to mixed opinions in the surrounding area in recent years, including the construction of several new housing developments, a hotel that includes multiple food and drink offerings, and in November, the area welcomed the country’s first wireless-charging public road. Other plans for the area, according to the Detroit News, include the construction of a new stadium on the site of the abandoned Southwest Detroit Hospital.
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