Denver’s El Diablo and Sketch Food & Wine restaurants have closed permanently.

The restaurants said in a Facebook post that Thursday was their last day of business.

Owner Jesse Morreale and the city of Denver have been in an ongoing dispute over building-safety issues at 101 Broadway, the structure that houses the restaurants.

On Friday morning, city building inspectors posted a notice to vacate the building because of structural deficiencies, failure to make roof repairs, fire-safety violations and unpermitted alterations.

The restaurants’ Facebook post stated that Denver officials have been on a “predetermined course … to see that the building be closed and these great restaurants be put out of business.”

Denver Planning Department spokeswoman Andrea Burns said the mandated repairs to the building were necessary and “not insurmountable.” The city had given Morreale several deadline extensions to make the repairs.

“We’ve tried for a long time to keep these businesses open,” she said. “But at the end of the day, public safety has to be No. 1.”

She noted that Denver had an interest in the restaurants remaining open because Morreale had taken out $660,000 in loans from the Denver Office of Economic Development.

Morreale did not respond to a request for comment.

The building’s owner, Morreale Hotels LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in December after a lender filed foreclosure proceedings on the building.

Morreale said last year that the loan problems stemmed from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seizing control of the property’s original lender, FirsTier Bank of Louisville.

Morreale said the loans have changed hands several times since then, making it difficult to determine which entity held the loans.