Given all the talk about how badly we need more hotel rooms, it's strange how slowly new proposals are taking. The conversions of office space on Smithe and Burrard are complete, and the Keefer Street hotel is having glazing installed, but the bigger projects Downtown seem slow. They're still digging the parade hole for the Anacon 'Block' hotel and condo tower on Robson, so that's a few years from completion.
The Paul Y twin hotels on Seymour have an approved development permit since April, so they look likely to be built, assuming funding is in place. The DeeCorp tower on Granville hasn't been rezoned and there's no sign of it happening yet. The big Marcon Pender and Richards project also seems to have stalled. They've submitted another, smaller hotel tower in the West End, and now
Colliers are leasing the office space in the Lumberman's Building, that was supposed to be part of the hotel project. There was supposed to be a hotel being submitted on the cleared Robson site that Bonnis sold off, but there's no sign of that either.
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