The battle between Jennifer Colliau and her hip cocktail bar in Uptown Oakland and the neighbors who opposed it came to an end this week as the 9-month-old business permanently shut down Thursday.

Colliau confirmed the news to The Chronicle, but declined to go into specifics. The Oakland native posted a note on the bar’s door Thursday explaining the situation.

“The residents of this building have protested my presence since I signed my lease two years ago, and I can no longer financially weather this fight,” it read. “I love that Oakland is thriving but I am distraught that it often prioritizes new development over its core community.”

Here’s How opened in April at 1780 Telegraph Ave., across the street from Fox Theater in a building with residential units above it. The Uptown Oakland corridor where it was located is bustling with bars and restaurants, including the nearby Emporium, Make Westing, Diving Dog, Woods Bar & Brewery and Somar, among others.

Under the building’s previous owner, there were plans in the works to open a sports bar in the Here’s How space, which Colliau told The Chronicle the homeowners’ association approved in 2013. The sports bar never came to fruition and the building was sold to a new owner.

Despite that precedence, current tenants have opposed Colliau’s project since 2017, when she first signed a lease for the space. In October 2018, seven tenants filed protests against Colliau’s liquor license, citing concerns about noise, loitering and smoking outside the premises. The complaints kept Colliau from receiving her permanent full liquor license, known as a Type-47 license.

Here’s How opened in 2019 after a myriad of delays Colliau said cost her an extra $150,000, both in rent payments prior to opening and in having to make changes to the building as required by her negotiations with the building’s homeowners association. Three months after opening, Colliau told The Chronicle her business was in jeopardy of closing due to the ongoing battle with residents.

For Colliau, an Oakland native with more than 20 years of experience as a bartender and consultant including at the Interval in San Francisco, Here’s How was a dream project. She said as much in her note to customers, which mentioned how she, in part, opened the bar to create jobs for people living in Oakland.

“This city lost 12 jobs today,” the note read. “Oakland, I love you but you are breaking my heart.”

Justin Phillips is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jphillips@sfchronicle.com. Twitter: @JustMrPhillips