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09/30/2025

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12/17/2024

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09/23/2024

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03/22/2023

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06/09/2022

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He was ordered to replace these panels by the city in March 2021. Amongst many other repairs outside the building and inside Barrymore's.

An engineer asked him to replace them in a report done in 2013 as well deeming them life thretening.
This report was forced on the landloard by Barrymore's.

This is a quote from the engineers report dated July 4th 2013.

"Aspenite Panels over the 2nd floor windows: These panels are badly deteriorated. Aspenite was never intended for an exposed exterior condition such as it is being used for here. This is a Life Safety Issue. The panels must be replaced with a material designed to resist weathering. "

So 9 years later they were still there and the city was forced to do it them selves on our dime folks.

I must point out as some people don't understand.
The landlord was ordered. Barrynores is not the landloard. The former disgrace mayor of Carleton place is.

Barrynores was told by the city it can no longer open to the public until the landloard fixed the deficiencies last June of 2021.
This was related to the landloard.

The landloard, instead of addressing the city of Ottawa, property standards Order and complying with the order decided to instead illegally evict Barrymore's once more in November of 2021.

Legal action has been taken by Barrynores.

05/09/2021

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02/09/2021

Once again , many thanks to our MPP Joel Harden and Christine Leadman from Bank Street Promenade BIA, The .

Local politicians are stepping in to help the owner of legendary music venue, who says he was illegally evicted.

02/08/2021

I am sure you all have questions about this article. So here are a couple of answers.

The rooftop units are 27 years old. When we took possession of Barrymore's they were already past their life expectancy.
They have cost us a fortune to repair over and over.
We cant even find parts for them anymore.

Replacing a rooftop unit falls on the landlord not the tenant in this case. Our lease does not make them our responsibility to replace.
At the same time, the tenant is on month to month status as the landlord is refusing to fix anything and give new lease.
Last March one of the units bit the dust. The Landlord, Louis Antonakos was notified.

We offered to replace both units with him if we were given a lease to justify spending 50k on them. Landlord refused. Now he comes and talks about heating the space.
I must state here that Barrymore's has been on a month to month basis for many years.

For over 10 years when the arcade was closed it was left unheated. In that case when your source of water is not heated, yes pipes will freeze. To Wandas, barrymores above is like a cold attic you have at home. It does nothing to Wanda's pipes as water comes from basement and her space is heated.

Furthermore, due to poor insulation and a roof that is over 30 years old, because heat rises, leaving heat on, inside barrymore's makes the snow melt on the roof and then water starts coming down through the roof, damaging the gold mouldings and potentially a hazard to people as they would fall on someone from 25 feet up.
Its even possible that the rooftop units might even fall through the ceiling.
The city and property standards have been made aware of all this.
Anyone that has dealt with Ice Damming at home know exactly what I am talking about.
To get 21 degrees at the main bar, upstairs bar is over 30. The attic becomes way too hot and there is no insulation above it really.
The public will find out more and more as this story progresses.
This eviction that he claims is not an eviction but a lease termination( cant be anything else, there is due process that was not followed to terminate this lease) was illegal, but the question is why did it happen. Article suggest that he wants to turn it into a w**d store?
He says he has no plans but AGCO website says otherwise.
The city has also been given an engineer report that was produced in 2013 by the landlord and he assumed responsibility to fix a number of " life threatening" things. Its 8 years later and he has not fixed them all or replaced them.

Rest assured, With the help of MPP Joel Harden, Christine Leadman, director of Bank Street Promenade BIA, The and our city councilor Catherine McKenney, we are doing all we can to save Barrymores and make sure the building is safe.
Thank you all for your kind support.
Barrymores Music hall belongs to everyone!

Landlord Louis Antonakos said he was forced to “take action” on Jan. 25 in order to turn on the heat after pipes froze in the ground-floor store occupied by another tenant.

02/06/2021

Many thanks to our MPP Joel Harden So far he has been a champion in his efforts to right this wrong and help save Barrymores Music hall. As well as Christine Leadman, executive director of Bank Street Promenade BIA, The

Barrymore's Music Hall, an Ottawa cultural landmark, was evicted from its location on Jan. 25 even though it was covered by the Canada Emergency Rental Assistance program and fell under an evictions ban until Jan. 31.

I'm asking Municipal Affairs & Housing Minister Steve Clark to intervene and save this iconic venue in Ottawa Centre.

02/04/2021

Former disgraced Mayor of Carleton place and landlord, illegally evicts Barrymore's Music Hall, during Covid 19 stay at home order, insisting the chattels be removed within 5 business days.

My name is George Syriannis. I own and operate Barrymore's Music Hall at 323 Bank st. Ottawa. For more than a decade, my landlord, Louis Antonakos, the former disgraced and censured Mayor of Carleton Place, has been harassing, and bullying me, ignoring addressing safety issues with the building that have been brought to his attention on numerous occasions and now trying to illegally evict me.

COVID 19 rent subsidies had been secured to assist Barrymore’s and the landlord weather the economic pressure of the pandemic coupled with the provincial moratorium on evictions.

On Monday, January 25th 2021, without prior notice, Mr. Antonakos instructed a bailiff to change the locks of Barrymore’s Music Hall and post an illegal lease termination on the door effectively illegally evicting Barrymores.

Protect, Support and Recover from COVID-19 Act (Budget Measures), 2020, S.O. 2020, c. 36 - Bill 229 schedule 5, implements an eviction band.

Bill 229 https://www.ontario.ca/laws/statute/s20036

I am simply a struggling, single-parent of a 7 year old, trying to earn a living, while at the same time, helping to ensure Ottawans continue to enjoy the music and entertainment from Barrymore’s – a city cultural landmark here in Ottawa and a essential puzzle piece to the City of Ottawa Music City initiative.

I am calling on the City of Ottawa to act enforcing its policies and bylaws; inspect this Heritage building, hold Mr. Antonakos to account and issue the necessary orders to repair and maintain the building to avoid the potential risk of personal injury as a result of the condition of the property.

Mr. Antonakos is flouting the law through this illegal eviction and destroying the livelihood I have built over the years. These heavy-handed tactics are what he did while he was Mayor of Carleton Place.

Thank you

George Syriannis

February 14th, 2018: Outraged residents in Carleton Place say they want their Mayor to resign after he was found to have broken the code of conduct three times. Councillors have handed Mayor Louis Antonakos with a 270 day pay suspension, the steepest penalty the municipal act allows. https://www.iheartradio.ca/580-cfra/news/councillor-slap-carleton-place-mayor-with-pay-suspension-while-residents-demand-resignation-1.3622594

October 16, 2018: Carleton Place Mayor Louis Antonakos, who's running for re-election, has again been scolded by the town's integrity commissioner over interactions with staff. Those breaches included bullying and releasing confidential information — specifically, audio recordings of in-camera council meetings — to developers. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/louis-antonakos-conduct-report-staff-1.4862559

October 17, 2018: Carleton Place council limits mayor's contact with staff. It also looked into allegations the mayor harassed staff, but said employees were reluctant to talk to him about it — a troubling sign, he said. At a meeting Tuesday night, town council voted to limit Antonakos' contact with staff. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/louis-antonakos-conduct-report-staff-1.4865349

According to Ottawa Police Services, when called to Barrymore’s on Sunday, April 17th, 2011, an officer wrote: 1. “Dealing with Antonakos, I observed his behaviour to be erratic. It appears as though he may have shut off the water after being denied access in Barrymore’s and if that is the case put the building at risk should anything have occurred.” 2. “When questioned about his story, Antonakos changes his story of why he was there several times.

01/02/2021

Happy New Year everyone. Hopefully we will be able to see you all once again in 2021.