A brand new 12-storey lodge constructing shall be coming to the northwest nook of the intersection of West Broadway and Laurel Avenue.
In a 9-0 vote on Tuesday night, Vancouver Metropolis Council authorized the rezoning software for 901 West Broadway. TEAM councillor Colleen Hardwick and COPE councillor Jean Swanson had been absent from the choice.
The brand new lodge by Hallmark Hospitality Group (HHG) will substitute the 1929-built, two-storey constructing at the moment occupied by New India Buffet, Bar, and Restaurant, which was beforehand an Earls restaurant.
HHG has not indicated the lodge model this property will fall beneath, however the firm is thought for working low-to-mid tier properties beneath the banners of 4 Factors by Sheraton, Greatest Western Premier, Ramada Inn & Suites, and Greatest Western Plus. The property is at the moment referred to as “Hallmark Lodge.”
Web site of Hallmark Lodge at 901 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Zeidler Structure/Hallmark Hospitality)
Location of Hallmark Lodge at 901 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Zeidler Structure/Hallmark Hospitality Group)
Inventive rendering of the Hallmark Lodge at 901 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Zeidler Structure/Hallmark Hospitality Group)
A complete flooring space of 93,000 sq ft will accommodate 147 lodge rooms and a ground-level restaurant. The constructing’s basket weave-like design — utilizing a mix of wooden veneer, steel panels, brick, and concrete — is by Zeidler Structure.
This location is especially strategic for a lodge for causes that embrace its very shut proximity to Vancouver Basic Hospital and medical analysis services, its adjacency to the longer term SkyTrain Oak-VGH Station entrance on the southwest nook of the intersection, and the Metropolis’s Broadway Plan and Financial Lands methods of encouraging new inns within the space.
Whereas this can be a extremely central and accessible location, the positioning’s potential top is severely restricted by the hospital’s helipad flightpath, with the constructing top restrictions regulated by the federal authorities.
Inventive rendering of the Hallmark Lodge at 901 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Zeidler Structure/Hallmark Hospitality Group)
Inventive rendering of the Hallmark Lodge at 901 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Zeidler Structure/Hallmark Hospitality Group)
However, any further lodge room capability is seen as a welcome addition, given the immense attrition of lodge rooms earlier than and through the pandemic.
Throughout the assembly, Gwendal Castellan, the supervisor of sustainable vacation spot growth at Vacation spot Vancouver, dropped at consideration the deficit of lodge rooms to draw leisure guests, and function locations for enterprise conferences, momentary and emergency lodging, and lodging for guests to main hospitals . Furthermore, the scarcity of lodge rooms will enhance harm Vancouver’s skill to land and assist main occasions, commerce exhibits, and conventions.
As of 2018, there have been 1,105 fewer lodge rooms in Vancouver in comparison with a decade earlier, simply earlier than the 2010 Olympics. This was largely because of inns being transformed or redeveloped into residential makes use of.
After which over the past two years, in response to the pandemic’s homelessness disaster, the town noticed 9 extra lodge closures totaling 620 rooms — principally within the one-, two-, and three-star lodging classes.
As of this spring, Castallan says, visitation to Vancouver is clearly rebounding, and lodge occupancy ranges are actually close to pre-pandemic 2019 ranges.
“We’re anticipating that we’ll discover that the additional losses in stock through the pandemic have solely exacerbated the crunch that we had beforehand recognized in 2019,” he mentioned.
Based mostly on a current evaluation, Vacation spot Vancouver anticipates there may very well be as much as 3.4 million further guests to the town on an annual foundation by 2030, which might necessitate the development of sufficient new inns to increase the town’s lodging capability by as much as 5,000 rooms.
The chance value of not doing so is about $2.6 billion yearly in misplaced financial advantages, $387 million in direct tax revenues, and tens of hundreds of jobs.
“It is vital for lodge capability to develop in lockstep with the town and different industries,” added Castallan.
Inventive rendering of the Landmark On Robson condominium towers Changing the now-demolished Empire Landmark Lodge on Robson Avenue in downtown Vancouver. (Picture: Left – PDP London/Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership/Asia Normal Worldwide Group; Proper – Clive Hicks /Flickr)
2019 inventive rendering of the authorized condominium and lodge tower at 118-150 Robson Avenue, Vancouver, subsequent to BC Place Stadium. (Amacon Growth)
With the excessive value of land in Vancouver, new lodge tasks are growing financially difficult to attain. To make the economics work, some new inns have been built-in with mixed-use developments, corresponding to throughout the decrease flooring or hooked up to a condominium constructing. New inns have been primarily four- and five-star properties as a result of excessive development and land prices.
Past merely including extra stock, Castallan additionally highlighted the necessity to have a various lodge room provide that meets the big selection of wants of tourists, versus the rising “monoculture of getting just one class of lodge.”
He notes that with out intervention on catalyzing extra new inns, the restricted lodge provide and number of inns may doubtlessly put extra strain on demand for short-term leases like Airbnb.
“Similar to housing is for lots of people, lots of new room charges are getting as much as $400 and $500 per evening, and it is very tough for individuals to afford,” mentioned ABC councillor Sarah Kirby-Yung through the assembly.” It makes lots of sense to see lodge stock on the Broadway hall given the event that’s occurring there.”
“I can not emphasize sufficient how we have to really speed up and allow extra lodge tasks… Vancouver will enhance lose lots of alternatives as tourism is coming again, and we’re a lovely place to go to. Individuals do wish to come right here, however they want a spot to remain.”
In January 2020, metropolis council authorized a serious 438-room lodge kitty nook from the Hallmark property — Changing the prevailing Park Inn & Suites by Radisson and the Fairview Pub and liquor retailer. There shall be a web acquire of rooms in comparison with what exists at the moment, together with 258 conventional short-term keep rooms and 180 long-term keep rooms with kitchenettes.
A sizeable lodge was additionally authorized in March 2021 for a website positioned on Cambie Avenue, simply throughout from SkyTrain Oakridge-Forty first Avenue Station. A 15-storey lodge constructing with 270 rooms shall be hooked up to a 29-storey condominium tower. Early this 12 months, a partnership between Peterson Group and Coromandel Properties acquired this Oakridge lodge and condominium complicated mission from Wall Monetary Company.
Inventive rendering of the authorized redevelopment of Park Inn & Suites by Radisson at 878-898 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Arno Matis Structure)
Inventive rendering of 5910-5962 Cambie Avenue, Vancouver. (Perkins & Will Architects)