Buck Mulligan's is closing early next month after two years in Five Points South.

The Irish-themed restaurant, bar and music venue will close June 25, but owner Danny Ray Winter said Buck's is looking for a new location to reopen.

Winter told AL.com Monday that Barber Companies, which owns and is renovating the building at 2007, 2009 and 2011 Highland Avenue South, where Buck Mulligan's operates, would not enter into a lease with Buck Mulligan's. Winter said Barber cited the building's renovations, and that rents would go up substantially after the project was completed.

"It's kind of sad, but it's going to be a positive thing in the long run," Winter said. "We're in negotiations with another company on a new lease, still there in Southside, right now."

Buck Mulligan's opened in the Summer of 2015 in the former space of Black Market Bar and Grill, which shortly before had moved to the former MetroPrime location elsewhere in Five Points South. Black Market's lease lasted until June 30, 2017, so Buck's subleased the property from them.

"We don't have a legal relationship with Buck Mulligan's. Buck Mulligan's is not our tenant. Black Market's lease is up June 30," said Don Erwin, Vice President of Corporate Development for the Barber Companies. "For Buck Mulligan's to continue in that space, Buck Mulligan's would have to initiate a lease with us directly. My folks say that, for a variety of reasons, we have not been able to successfully negotiate a lease with Buck Mulligan's."

Documents show that Black Market filed a lawsuit against Winter and his co-owner Michael Gordon on May 26, alleging the pair did not pay rents in excess of $88,250, in addition to late fees.

"We believe that this lawsuit is unfounded and unwarranted," Gordon said. "We do not believe that we owe them money, and we believe we have grounds for a countersuit."

Gordon declined to comment further citing pending litigation. Winter told AL.com the suit has nothing to do with the move.

"This is between us and Barber," Winter said.

Black Market's owners declined to comment.