PHOTO BY LAURA PETRILLA

You have until June 29 to dig in at Lawrenceville’s Main Street Diner & Kickback Cafe before it goes 6 feet under.

As a diehard fan of the 1988 film “Beetlejuice,” it’ll be a sad day-o for me, indeed.

In a social media post on Monday, the owners of Lawrenceville Market House, a co-retailing space that debuted on Butler Street in 2022, announced the decision to close the Beetlejuice-themed bar, restaurant and pinball arcade that’s located on the lower level. Oliver’s Donuts, the coffee shop that anchors the first floor, and Simply Burgers & Fries (their delicious Donut Burger nearly sent me to an early grave) are also leaving the building.

PHOTO BY KRISTY GRAVER

Main Street Diner was a strange and unusual dining concept, but one that Brian Mendelssohn believed in enough to spend an eternity gutting out an old Mellon Bank basement and turning it into a culinary haunted house, complete with an enormous sandworm that I will gladly adopt. The pinball machines will be moved to the Rezzanine Esports facility in Bridgeville for Pinburgh 2025, a match-play tournament that is the largest event of its kind in the world. It will be held July 23-27, 2025.

Mendelssohn, founder of Lawrenceville-based Botero Development, also owns Row House Cinema and Bierport, which are located across the street from Lawrenceville Market House. Fulton Commons is a coworking space and kitchen incubator in Manchester co-founded by Mendelssohn and his brother, Irwin. They siblings also are working to restore Dormont’s historic Hollywood Theater. A reopening date will be announced by the end of July.

The Mendelssohns have partnered with Specialty Group, a real estate firm with expertise in the restaurant and bar industry, to find the next great coffee or café concept to fill the void.

Lawrenceville Market House’s other retailers will remain open during this transition.