Native developer Marcon is hoping to offer a much-needed main reduction for Metro Vancouver’s immense scarcity of tourism-supporting, hotel-room provide.

They’ve submitted a rezoning utility to construct downtown Vancouver’s largest new resort in additional than 20 years, because the 2001 completion of the 746-room Sheraton One Wall Centre.

Primarily based on the variety of resort rooms, additionally it is the biggest resort mission at present sooner or later pipeline in your complete area, not together with the eventual reopening of the previous 4 Seasons Vancouver Lodge tower at CF Pacific Centre with a brand new operator following an in depth renovation.

This model new resort mission may have much more rooms than the 2017-built Parq Vancouver resorts of JW Marriott and The Douglas with a mixed complete of 517 rooms, the 2016-built Paradox Lodge (former Trump) with 147 rooms, and the 2010-built Fairmont Pacific Rim with 377 rooms.

Marcon’s proposal requires a complete of 578 rooms in a 32-storey, 100% resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road — the southwest nook of the intersection of West Pender Road and Richards Road.

The hanging architectural design and breathe of high-end resort facilities recommend this might be an upper-middle to upper-end resort property. A resort operator or model has not been related to this resort given the present early stage of planning.

In late 2021, the developer acquired three properties on the nook for a mixed complete worth of $64 million.

Web site of 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Present situation:

Web site of 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

The land meeting of the Superior Parking public parkade at 516 West Pender Road (left) and the business constructing at 534 West Pender Road (proper) in downtown Vancouver. (Google Maps)

Future situation:

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

To attain this mission, the six-storey parkade with 263 automobile parking stalls can be demolished, however two different heritage constructions on the event web site might be retained.

The 1909-built, small, two-storey Captain Pybus business constructing on West Pender Road, at present the house of Cartems Donuterie, will see its facade built-in with the brand new constructing. The a lot bigger 1912-built, eight-storey Lumbermen’s Constructing on Richards Road might be restored, and its workplace makes use of might be retained — however separate from the resort.

A 3-storey excessive atrium that’s sculpted into the West Pender Road frontage supplies a powerful house for the principle entrance, resort foyer, restaurant, and bar. This inside house is enclosed by glass partitions and additional outlined by its jade-coloured steel accent wall and ceiling panels which might be additionally seen from the outside.

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Up above, the whole lot of the third stage is devoted to a most important ballroom and assembly rooms.

The resort rooms are positioned from ranges 4 to 10 and 12 to 29.

All the eleventh stage might be fully used for a really important vacation spot restaurant attraction, which incorporates an outside restaurant patio overlooking the intersection under.

All of stage 30, the sub-rooftop, will supply resort facilities, together with a health health club, well being spa, and out of doors terrace with a swimming pool and scorching tub.

The uppermost prime flooring, stage 31, might be used as workplace house. The small, standalone workplace stage on the prime of the tower suggests this might be a non-public workplace for the developer and/or resort operations.

The constructing’s numerous makes use of are damaged down as 408,500 sq ft for resort rooms, 15,500 sq ft for restaurant and resort amenity makes use of, 660 sq ft for retail, and 14,600 sq ft for workplace.

Lodge constructing makes use of at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Format of Stage 11 for the resort restaurant at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Format of Stage 30 for resort facilities at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Designed by Henriquez Companions Architects, the identical agency behind the Woodward’s redevelopment, the proposed resort tower supplies a nod to the realm’s heritage character by offering the tower exterior with complementary tones of brickwork. Panorama architect Paul Sangha Inventive has additionally offered the design with intensive greenery — bushes each inside and outdoors the principle stage’s atrium, planters for climbing vines on elements of the tower’s exterior, and vegetation and bushes on each the decrease and higher rooftops.

“The constructed type will strengthen the city cloth of the downtown core whereas making a big contribution to the wonder and visible energy of the town throughout the general dome form of the town’s skyline,” reads the mission’s design rationale.

The tower’s top of 318 toes makes use of up the location’s complete top restrict, reaching the underside of the protected mountain View Cone of E1, which emanates from the center of the Cambie Road Bridge.

Six underground ranges will present 146 automobile parking stalls and 91 secured bike parking areas.

The brand new resort tower’s complete flooring space would attain 446,000 sq ft, establishing a flooring space density of a flooring space that’s 21.35 instances bigger than the dimensions of the lot. This doesn’t embody the present 32,000 sq ft of flooring space from the retained Lumbermen’s Constructing.

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)

Final month, Vacation spot Vancouver CEO Royce Chwin warned of the dire state of affairs with the resort scarcity.

There at the moment are about 13,000 resort rooms in Vancouver — representing a lower of two,000 rooms in comparison with 2008 within the lead-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. The pre-pandemic losses have been initially primarily attributable to resort redevelopments into residential makes use of, whereas the pandemic-time losses have been from governments shopping for older, low-end resorts for speedy housing for the homeless. The Metro Vancouver area as an entire now has about 20,000 resort rooms.

With the absence of recent main extra resort developments, the tourism bureau initiatives Metro Vancouver’s accessible resort room provide will fall behind actual demand each summer season beginning in 2028. By 2040, the supply-demand imbalance might be all year long.

And by 2050, because of the lack of ability to host in a single day guests and achieve their spending on resorts, retail, eating, companies, and sights, there might be $20 billion in gathered direct income losses to the financial system. It’s anticipated 20,000 extra resort rooms might be wanted in Metro Vancouver over the subsequent three many years.

“New resorts are desperately wanted in Vancouver to deal with a latest decline in resort rooms and to help the restoration of the tourism trade,” states the rezoning proposal.

“This mission addresses the decline of provide within the downtown core, in a location the place resort growth is inspired. It supplies a brand new vacation spot resort of comparable dimension to different Downtown resorts and can set a brand new benchmark of remarkable high quality.”

Creative rendering of the resort tower at 516-534 West Pender Road, Vancouver. (Henriquez Companions Architects/Marcon)