Rumpus Room restaurant closing to make room for condos

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      The retro knickknacks at the Rumpus Room (2689 Main Street) are going to have to find a new home. The Mount Pleasant eatery announced today (March 10) that it will close at the end of March.

      “So I'm writing this with the most heaviest f$%&ing heart in my life. After the most brutal battle, we are being kicked out of the Rumpus Room at the end of the month,” Rachel Zottenberg, who co-owns the business, stated on Facebook. “I LOVE THIS PLACE. This, my first restaurant. This, the place I opened with my best friend in the world David Duprey. This, the place where my family lives.”

      The Rumpus Room is closing to reportedly make room for a new condo development. An online petition calling on Mayor Gregor Robertson to stop demolition of the Rumpus Room has already collection over 1,200 signatures. Zottenberg and Duprey continue to operate the Emerald restaurant and lounge in Chinatown.

      Comments

      22 Comments

      Matthew

      Mar 10, 2014 at 9:14pm

      Nooooo!

      Mark

      Mar 10, 2014 at 11:21pm

      More closing like this to come. Downtown Vancouver is slowly running out of room to build condos.

      Sean

      Mar 11, 2014 at 8:44am

      That's right vancouver , build all thoses condos for more people and then watch the city's smartest and brightest leave shortly after arriving because it has the most boring nightlife in the western world ! No fun city fuelled by developers !

      J

      Mar 11, 2014 at 9:04am

      THIS IS THE WORST NEWS EVER!!!

      Survey says

      Mar 11, 2014 at 9:09am

      Condo ....CONdo....

      Its a CON to take your DOugh.

      LER

      Mar 11, 2014 at 9:28am

      Another developer with bags of money swoops down like a vulture to push people out of Mt. Pleasant. There has been too much of this happening in our neighbourhood. WE ARE NOT YALETOWN!

      RUK

      Mar 11, 2014 at 9:39am

      Sad, I hope they try the concept somewhere else. Pretty fun going in there to play board games and have chicken and waffles!

      Some dude

      Mar 11, 2014 at 10:07am

      open up the restaurant once the new condos are built, there is always space for lease/sale at street level.Not seeing the problem here

      RF

      Mar 11, 2014 at 10:13am

      Maybe the awesome new development will be "mixed use" and they'll put in an awesome Cactus Club or some such generic party-while-eating barn. Main is definitely ripe for the ol' Vancouver sandblasting - smooth off all those rough edges and paint it beige.

      @some dude

      Mar 11, 2014 at 11:14am

      Right, because the rent probably won't be prohibitively expensive in the new building...