Less than a year after opening, the concert venue is now closed, citing poor bar sales as a cause.
"As a business that depends on bar sales to survive, unfortunately we were not generating enough to make operating sustainable. Thank you for all your support," a post on the venue's website reads.The announcement came as a surprise to ticket holders as well as artists who were booked to play the venue in the coming days and months.
The relatively small, 120-person capacity Rockwood is located near Fenway Park, a district already saturated with established and new concert venues with both the 2,200-capacity House of Blues and the 5,000-capacity MGM Music Hall within a short walk. “I would get way too many emails about artists who were still owed money,” he said. “The emails just kept coming in — the calls and text messages and DMs. Just a lot of disgruntled artists and rightfully so.”
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