Rock Loses Venue at Pink Cadillac Amid Complaints : Music: The club will become a restaurant. It will feature big-band salsa and try to avoid noise problem.

The Pink Cadillac, an outlet for original local rock bands over the past year, has closed in the wake of neighbors’ complaints and resulting pressure from city officials, club owner Ray Camacho said Friday.

Camacho said he is remodeling the club and has found new partners who will help him run it as a Mexican restaurant, with big-band salsa music taking over from alternative rock as the featured live entertainment.

The club at 420 S. Broadway had been putting on one or two concerts a week by local alternative-rock bands. In the past six to eight weeks, Camacho said, neighboring homeowners complained about the sound of bass tones from the club, and noise coming from patrons in its parking lot. Stepped-up inspections by state alcoholic beverage officials, and city police, fire marshals and health officials followed, and Camacho said it became questionable whether his live entertainment permit would be renewed if he continued running the Pink Cadillac as a rock music club.

“It’s obviously the kind of thing that you need to be away from residential (areas) to do,” he said. When the club reopens as a restaurant in the fall, he said, he may consider rock music on weeknights, but Fridays and Saturdays will be devoted to Latin bands. “There’s a big market--the Latin market’s just growing phenomenally.”

With the Pink Cadillac closed, two young, independent promoters who had been booking local bands there found themselves without a venue for the third time this year.

“I don’t know where we’ll go--we’re looking for a place,” said promoter Kitty Bash, who has tried with her partner, Octavious, to offer a weekly outlet for local rock bands under the name Club Tangent.