BURLINGTON — The city’s premiere all-ages venue, 242 Main, will host its last concert Saturday as tenants must vacate Memorial Auditorium on Main Street because of structural deficiencies.
The concert will feature 21 bands and 11 hours of music stretching from noon to 11 p.m. The show will be free and open to the public, according to the Burlington Parks and Recreation Department.
Other tenants of Memorial must vacate the space before the end of the year, and Generator, the coworking space, has already closed up shop and is in the process of moving to 40 Sears Lane, according to the news release.
The move is being supported by an investment from Champlain College and a $300,000 fundraising effort led by the Generator’s board. The 170-member creative community is moving into an 8,500 square-foot portion of Champlain College’s facilities and operations warehouse. The space is 35 percent larger than its previous location, according to the release. The new space is expected to open on Jan. 2.
Burlington City Arts, which operates classes and drop-in art studios at Memorial, will close its clay and print shop there on Dec. 21, according to Communications Director Llu Mulvaney-Stanak.
Those programs will move to 405 Pine Street, where the city is soliciting bids for renovations, and BCA plans to reopen there in this summer. BCA’s other arts education programs will continue to operate out of their 135 Church Street location, Mulvaney-Stanak said.
