It wasn’t a Mirage after all.
The Brooklyn Mirage music venue is set to welcome ravers again this June after another nightlife company has stepped in to save the troubled spot, which was not allowed to reopen because of numerous safety issues.
The gargantuan indoor- and outdoor-venue will be renamed Pacha New York, with Pacha Group parent company FIVE Holdings to take over the Brooklyn Mirage.
The troubled Brooklyn Mirage music venue is set to reopen this June following a complete takeover of the popular summertime concert space. Stephen YangThe troubled Mirage is slated to be entirely demolished and rebuilt, according to permits approved by the DOB last month.
The new operator vows to bring a “cultural platform where global icons, underground pioneers, and New York’s creative communities unite in celebration of music, movement, and human connection” to the stages in a Tuesday press release, first reported by Brooklyn Vegan.
“Expect the world’s most sought-after electronic artists, Grammy-winning performers, and large-scale shows rarely seen in New York City,” FIVE Holdings said, “delivered with the production depth and ambition the culture deserves.”
The 32,000-square-foot open-air Mirage was set to reopen after extensive renovations last summer, but failed to meet an inspection deadline due to safety concerns.
A Department of Buildings plan examiner initially found “several inconsistencies” in Avant Gardner’s occupancy certificate application, triggering an audit in April 2025 of all its filings, a rep for the agency told The Post.
The gargantuan indoor- and outdoor-venue will be transformed into Pacha New York, with a June 2026 reopening locked in for summer. Stefano GiovanniniThe audit found a “number” of code and safety issues, the rep said, including “legitimate structural and egress issues” that “prevented the location from being safe enough to open for the public.”
Disastrous issues included inadequate floor and roof bracing; a lack of compliant exit stairways, fire sprinklers and toilets; and failure to meet accessibility requirements, to name a few.
The structure also wasn’t able to withstand “lateral forces” like wind or seismic activity, the DOB said.
The 32,000-square-foot open-air concert hall was set to reopen after extensive renovations last summer. Stephen Yang“From [the venue’s] questionable footing to the large truss at its zenith, from its cantilevered mezzanines to its exterior walls, it was potentially unsteady, combustible, illegal, and no place to put 6,000 people,” then-Buildings Commissioner Jimmy Oddo said in a statement.
In August, “after the property owners did not make progress to fix the project,” the city issued an official order for owners to either make changes to the structure and bring it up to code, or demolish the entire structure.
Owners filed to raze the concert venue the same month. At the same time, Avant Gardner’s parent company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, calling the Mirage closure “catastrophic” for company finances in court documents.
While it remains to be seen if the new operators will ultimately pass the necessary safety inspections, the city has already dinged the site last month for failure to submit a periodic gas piping system inspection.
The Mirage is part of the 80,000-square-foot Avant Gardner complex in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. While the former Mirage outdoor space will tout a June to October season, the revamped indoor Great Hall venue will operate year-round as a “multi-genre arena,” ownership said.
Ibiza-based Pacha’s first Big Apple location closed in Hell’s Kitchen in 2016 after a decade.
The new operator claim to keep Pacha New York “unmistakably Brooklyn – with ongoing partnerships with local artists, collectives, and promoters, keeping the space rooted in and reflective of the community that built this dancefloor’s legacy in the first place.”
The Brooklyn Mirage opened in 2017 and hosted the likes of electronic music behemoths Zedd, Charlotte de Witte and Fisher over its seven-year run.






