It’s game over for Quarters Arcade Bar in the Sugar House neighborhood of Salt Lake City.

According to an Instagram post from the business, the location of Quarters at 1045 E. 2100 South will close on May 31.

“We appreciate everyone who supported us in our second location, but through construction, slow summers and overpriced rent, we aren’t able to keep it going,” the post said.

Quarters — which also has a downtown Salt Lake City location at 5 E. 400 South — opened in Sugar House in 2022. Katy Willis, who owns Quarters with her husband, Michael Eccleston, said “we did start really gaining some momentum” when they first opened, but that was quickly stifled when road construction started in the neighborhood.

Willis said construction was a never-ending cycle of disruption, and then people getting used to that disruption, “and then they closed down McClelland [Street] for two months, and then that would slow us down. And then they would put a Porta Potty next to our front door.”

They hung on through the construction, but at the end of every year, the Sugar House location was in the red, Willis said.

The lease for the Sugar House location is up at the end of August, and Willis and Eccleston said they had hoped to make it through July 22, which would have been the location’s fourth birthday, “but our bank account’s just not going to make it that long,” Eccleston said.

They said it’s too big of a financial “risk” to renew their lease in August. “It’s just too scary as two people who own one business that’s working to put everything on the line to keep something going,” Willis said, referring to the success they’ve seen at their downtown location.

And they said raising their prices wasn’t an option. “We just weren’t willing to raise our prices to a place that would bring us to profit because it just didn’t fit our ethos,” Willis said. “So we’d honestly rather close than not be true to ourselves.”

Closing before their lease is up won’t solve all of their financial troubles; they still have to pay about $14,000 a month in rent until the end of August.

In the meantime, the downtown Quarters is “going strong,” Willis said, even though the bar flooded in April, and she and Eccleston owe about $30,000 to plumbers and a disaster cleanup company.

“We hope that in closing Sugar House, we can put all of our effort downtown and just do even more cool s--t,” Willis said.

Before the Sugar House location closes, it’s hosting several events. Willis said she hopes people can come to the arcade bar one last time and help them put some money in the bank for their bills.

May 20 • Beast from the East popup from 5 to 11 p.m., with the return of the much-requested chicken parm sandwich.

May 21-25 • Spar Lake City: Killer Queen invitational tournament and open tournament with three Killer Queen cabinets set up Thursday through Monday. Open play Thursday and Friday for all customers. Invitational tournament is Saturday and Sunday. Open Killer Queen tournament Monday at noon, with a popup from D’s Dogs (Chicago dogs and beef sandwiches) at 3 p.m.