The abandoned building is slowly deteriorating and its perimeter fenced off.
In 2005 community organizers opened a small one room office on the ground floor (left corner of building; location of a former health food store) as a headquarters for the building's restoration.
The office was permanently closed by the borough in December 2011, and no longer heated after 2013, leaving the building vacant and continuing to deteriorate.
In the years since, it has been repeatedly vandalized, windows broken (now bordered up), and covered with graffiti.
As of 2020, the theater has been officially declared structurally unsound and the roof at risk of collapse, after nearly 30 years of neglect and abandonment.
The abandoned building is slowly deteriorating and its perimeter fenced off. In 2005 community organizers opened a small one room office on the ground floor (left corner of building; location of a former health food store) as a headquarters for the building's restoration. The office was permanently closed by the borough in December 2011, and no longer heated after 2013, leaving the building vacant and continuing to deteriorate. In the years since, it has been repeatedly vandalized, windows broken (now bordered up), and covered with graffiti. As of 2020, the theater has been officially declared structurally unsound and the roof at risk of collapse, after nearly 30 years of neglect and abandonment.
Empress Theatre (Montreal)