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http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/partys-over-for-palace/2007/05/24/1179601549051.html
St Kilda's Palace entertainment complex is to close next month after a long-running battle over a planned redevelopment of the site.
The venue's operators today released a statement announcing the closure.
Twenty concerts and events due to be staged at the complex will be cancelled, according to the statement.
Upcoming events listed on the Palace website include a concert by touring American indie band The Shins.
Plans for a $100 million makeover of the St Kilda "triangle site" - the land next to Luna Park - on which the Palace sits stumbled last month.
Under the development plans, the Palace was expected to be bulldozed and the neighbouring Art Deco Palais Theatre refurbished.
The two leases expired on March 31, but neither operator had been evicted.
State Government lawyers argued in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal in March that unless access to the site was won by August 30 this year, the tender process to redevelop it could collapse.
Operators of the Palace nightclub and the Palais Theatre lost a Supreme Court appeal in April that sought to prevent the State Government inspecting their two buildings.
The tender process cannot be finalised without an inspection. The operators of the two venues had threatened a High Court appeal to stop the inspections.
If an appeal was allowed, it could take months, breaching the August 30 deadline
