Does anyone have confirmation or any more details on this? We'll be there during what was to have been the closure and felt bad about missing it, but on the other hand seeing it with a bunch of broken fx wouldn't be great, either.
Hopefully they are just pushing the refurb back awhile to get ready for a larger scope of work. Perhaps during the investigation and planning for the refurb they found some problems that require a more extensive refurb, thus the need to push it back for more planning and pre refurb prep work.
I was talking to someone who knows a lot about ITTBAB and they said that basically the parts for Hopper have to ordered well in advance. They didn't place the order in time and just cancelled the refurb.