The owners of La Tulipe released a statement Wednesday evening about the $350,000 settlement the city has reached with the concert venue’s neighbour of 10 years — and they are not happy.

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The City of Montreal announced this week that it had reached a settlement with the neighbour in question, Pierre-Yves Beaudoin, who has done seemingly everything in his power to shut down the emblematic Plateau-Mont-Royal concert hall over the past 10 years through a series of noise complaints and protracted legal proceedings.

The city will pay Beaudoin the above sum to drop all legal action in the case, cease residential use of the property located next to La Tulipe and restore it to commercial usage within 60 days.

The settlement was approved in a Plateau council meeting on Monday. La Tulipe is now free to reopen, after being closed since September 2024.

“We salute this gesture by the City of Montreal, which resolves this situation, but we feel a need to enumerate the real issues we face concerning the reopening of La Tulipe, which we have owned for more than 20 years,” the venue’s owners said.

From beginning to end, La Tulipe’s decade-long nightmare reads like a cautionary tale, a........

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