Developer scraps condo plans, proposes 29-storey hotel tower next to Stanley Park
A 29-storey hotel tower with a rooftop pool is being pitched for the site of an existing lowrise extended-stay hotel on the edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver's West End.
Submitted by Henriquez Partners Architects on behalf of developer Marcon, the proposal calls for 65 short-term stay rooms and 227 "serviced apartment rooms" at the current site of Rosellen Suites at Stanley Park, 2030-2038 Barclay St.
According to the City of Vancouver's Shape Your City website, the rezoning application for the project was received on July 31. The application booklet was made public Monday.
"This application is not consistent with council-adopted policies," the Shape Your City page reads.
"The city is required to process all rezoning applications submitted and staff position on the proposal will be summarized in the referral report later in the application process timeline."
While the developer's application acknowledges that the proposal doesn't necessarily align with the area's existing zoning or the West End Plan, it also notes that the West End Plan predates the city's Interim Hotel Development Policy, which aims to address a shortage of hotel rooms in the city.
The proposal to replace an existing hotel building "supports the city’s goal of creating more hotel rooms without the loss of housing," the application booklet notes.
If approved and built, the new tower would be 100.3 metres (329 feet) tall, with "additional height for rooftop amenity space," according to the city.
That's taller than any of the other highrises in the area, though there are several that predate – and exceed – the height limits in the West End's RM-5B zoning district.
(Marcon / Henriquez Partners Architects)
The developer argues that the proposed hotel's location and height fill a gap in the area's existing skyline.
"To strengthen the urban frame and reinforce the dome-shaped skyline, the tower needs to be higher than the maximum building height, without encroaching into the view cone," the application booklet reads.
The hotel proposal replaces a development permit application that Marcon and its architect submitted in 2018 and received approval for in 2022.
That proposal would have replaced the Rosellen Suites with "a 10-storey market residential tower" featuring "19 suites catering to families."
The public is invited to comment on the proposed redevelopment via its page on the Shape Your City website.
CTVNews.ca Top Stories
Live election results: Trump and Harris await results with battleground states too close to call
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris notched wins in reliably Republican and Democratic states, respectively, with battleground states still too close to call, as a divided America makes its decision in a stark choice for the nation's future Tuesday.
Trump and Harris rack up early wins as America awaits battleground results
Former U.S. president Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris notched early wins in reliably Republican and Democratic states, respectively, as a divided America made its decision in a stark choice for the nation's future Tuesday.
Who's going to win? The election prediction roundup
Outlets across the United States have been crunching numbers, parsing polls and working their magic models to predict the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election.
How exit polls work and what they will tell us on election night
Exit polls are a set of surveys that ask voters whom they voted for, as well as additional questions about their political opinions, the factors they considered in the election and their own backgrounds more broadly.
These swing states will likely decide the U.S. presidential election
These swing states will most likely determine the path to the presidency, with candidates needing to win some combination of votes to get them across the 270 mark to secure a majority.
Lamborghini driver who crashed into parked cars while trying to pass streetcar sentenced to prison
A mortgage broker who totalled his Lamborghini and left a passenger with life-altering injuries after trying to pass a Toronto streetcar at nearly three times the speed limit has been handed a two-and-a-half year prison sentence.
Ben Affleck had this to say about his ex, Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck may be going through a divorce, but it sounds like things are amicable.
B.C. RCMP say drunk driver crashed SUV then switched seats with passenger – who crashed again
Two drunk women crashed the same SUV into the same parked car in the same motel parking lot in Prince George, B.C., last week, according to police.
Hoax bomb threats linked to Russia target polling places in U.S. battleground states, FBI says
Hoax bomb threats, many of which appeared to originate from Russian email domains, were directed on Tuesday at polling locations in four battleground states - Georgia, Michigan, Arizona and Wisconsin - as U.S. election day voting was underway, the FBI said.