PROVINCETOWN — The doors of the Surf Club restaurant will remain closed for yet another summer season.

“I have nothing to say except that it’s not going to be open this summer,” owner Lenny Enos Jr. said on Friday. “There’s issues and I’m trying to resolve them, and I hope to be open next season.”

It’s been almost two years since a three-alarm fire tore through the Lopes Square restaurant and its adjoining eateries at 315 Commercial St. The fire heavily damaged the building, which had been undergoing construction with a tentative opening date of May 2019. Town staff confirmed last week that the “issues” Enos referred to were not related to permitting.

Although the restaurant is not ready to open, construction is far enough along to prevent it from losing its pre-existing nonconforming status under zoning laws, which give such businesses a two-year window in which to complete reconstruction work after closing down.

“The scope of the work permitted by the town has been executed,” Building Commissioner Anne Howard said by email on April 26. “The owner of the property is the only one that can answer the question as to when and to what extent they will open.”

Rather than rebuilding the restaurant as it was before the fire, Enos resurrected plans from 2006 that he had abandoned because of personal and financial constraints. The plans include a second story above the restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating under a covered porch.

According to plans filed at town hall, the restaurant currently is permitted 240 seats downstairs (both indoors and outdoors) and will hold an additional 135 seats upstairs on the porch and another 65 seats in the upstairs interior dining room.

Before the May 2017 fire the building was occupied by not only the Surf Club restaurant but also the Red Shack and Tatiana’s Foot Long Hot Dogs. The waterfront property is assessed at $4.1 million, according to the town assessor’s database, and includes Hersheldon’s Leather at 317 Commercial St.