The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has lost a bid to hang on to its old clubhouse on Eastern Ave.

On Friday, the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed a court challenge by the bikers to win back their fortified east-end clubhouse.

Club lawyer Lenny Hochberg said he will ask his clients whether they want to try to take their fight to the Supreme Court of Canada.

The clubhouse was the property of Old Navy Corp., which is not connected to the well-known clothing chain of the same name. The corporation was run by members of the downtown Toronto charter of the international outlaw bike club, federal lawyers argued.

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Federal lawyers Tom Andreopoulos and Niall Gilks cautioned the court that it should not view the stark cinder block building as any sort of residence.

“The property was the quintessential example of real property as offence-related property,” they argued. “It was not a residence by any conventional stretch of the imagination, but was instead a fortified bunker and served as the pivot point around which multiple designated substance offences revolved.”

Barring a successful appeal of the decision, the province can now sell off or develop the property.

The bikers effectively lost control of the building in April 2007, when dozens of police with battering rams burst in and seized control as part of a project against drug trafficking.

In the trial that followed, the downtown Angels’ charter was not declared a criminal organization but several members were found guilty of drug-related offences.