Renton’s annual Art and Antique Walk has been cancelled this year to make way for an even bigger Arts and Antique Street Fair next year.

Organizer Arts Unlimited made the announcement on their website recently.

It became a matter of logistics this year and organizers ran out of time to get the necessary permitting, said Paul Hebron, president of Arts Unlimited.

“Our goal for 2015 was to block off 3rd street from Burnett to Main and create a street-fair, which required additional permits from the City of Renton,” said Hebron. “We didn’t secure the permits in a timely manner, thus our board of directors decided to postpone the street-fair until 2016.”

The idea to expand the walk to a street fair came last year after a number of artists expressed concern about being situated in front of vacant businesses downtown.

Originally designed to be an arts and antique walk through downtown, the vacant storefronts created by Renton Western Wear and the American Drapery business, for example, created gaps in the programming for the event, said Hebron.

In addition to plans to expand next year, Arts Unlimited has hosted a bunch of new events this year including once a month art walks, sketch nights and the Eruptions of Art.

“A lot of the programming that we’re doing is new for us,” said Hebron. “We just felt like we needed the time to do the street fair correctly.”

Attendance at some of the smaller arts events has been good, except for July, which Hebron attributes to people taking vacations.

The Eruption of Art event, for example, has featured 14 to 20 artists and live music at Luther’s Table and Liberty Cafe. All centered on “First Fridays,” the events are a take-off of entertainment events hosted Liberty Cafe and Ancient’s Arts Tattoo.

“We’re talked to a lot of the business owners and they said that foot traffic has increased those nights,” said Hebron.

To keep up to date on Arts Unlimited’s events, check out their website at www.artsunlimited.org.