OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Lyn Saxberg

Contractors hired by the City of Ottawa replaced two wood panels on the facade of Barrymore’s Music Hall this week after the landlord failed to comply with an order to conduct repairs on the property.

The old panels had been installed decades ago to cover broken windows on the upper half of the building at 323 Bank St., but the wood had eventually rotted. After a 2021 property inspection, they were deemed to pose a public safety hazard and were among the items that landlord Louis Antonakas was ordered to repair. Orders were issued for interior and exterior repairs.

Antonakas appealed those orders, but the Property Standards Licensing and Appeals Committee upheld them, paving the way for the city to “take necessary steps to address public health and safety issues identified at this heritage building,” said Roger Chapman, the city’s director of By-law and Regulatory Services.

Built more than 100 years ago, the former Imperial movie theatre is part of the Centretown Heritage Conservation District, a designation given in 1997.

The club has been closed to the public since the COVID-19 pandemic was declared in March 2020.

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