SLG Publishing will be forced this spring to close its San Jose, California, offices and Art Boutiki & Gallery to make way for a new apartment building. The Market Street location, which Publisher Dan Vado lovingly refers to as a "stinking rat-hole," has been home to SLG for nearly 11 years.

“The property is scheduled to be razed and have an apartment building built,” Vado tells Metroactive. “When that will happen, we’re not sure, but we were informed that we should be looking for a new place to do business.”

Located in downtown San Jose's SoFA District, the SLG Art Boutiki is a combination comics store and gallery that for the past three years has also been host to all-ages live-music performances; it's also home to the San Jose Comics Festival. While Vado tells Metroactive they can probably remain on Market Street as late as the end of the summer, on the Art Boutiki website he teases he's already "singled out a location that will allow us to continue to be one of the coolest places in Silicon Valley." However, no contracts have been signed.

In the meantime Vado plans to launch a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the relocation.