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Contractors plan to begin tearing down a building in Rockland on Monday to make way for a new home for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.

The art center will move seven miles south to downtown Rockland in July 2016. The move signals the end of a long relationship between Rockport village, where the influential arts organization has been since it opened in 1952, and the beginning of a new chapter in the midcoast’s cultural hub.

The demolition of an existing building, that will pave the way for construction of a new complex for Center for Maine Contemporary Art, is scheduled to begin next week.

Rockland Main Street Inc. sent out a notice last week that advised downtown businesses that during the weeklong demolition, Winter Street, which runs off Main Street, will be one-way. Demolition is expected to begin Sept. 8.

Excavation for the new foundation for the arts center on Winter Street is tentatively scheduled for October.