{"id":950815,"date":"2026-10-29T16:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:08:10","slug":"demolition-of-montreals-iconic-empress-theatre-gets-initial-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/950815\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition of Montreal&#8217;s iconic Empress Theatre gets initial approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u2013Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce borough has taken another step toward its plan for the Empress Theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a Wednesday evening meeting, the borough\u2019s demolition committee approved its request to demolish the theatre while <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/n-d-g-s-empress-theatre-to-be-demolished-turned-into-an-outdoor-cultural-space\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/n-d-g-s-empress-theatre-to-be-demolished-turned-into-an-outdoor-cultural-space\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">preserving its iconic Egyptian Revival facade<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents have 30 days to ask borough council to review the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The C\u00f4te-des-Neiges\u2013Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce borough has taken another step toward its plan for the Empress Theatre. At a Wednesday evening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":950816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,1007,2338],"class_list":["post-950815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-construction","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/950816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}