New 33-storey hotel tower for Granville Entertainment District approved by Vancouver City Council

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There will be 464 hotel guest rooms, making it one of Vancouver’s largest hotel projects in recent decades in terms of the total number of rooms.

About 184 hotel rooms (40 per cent) within the lower floors will be designed for traditional short-term stays, while the remaining 280 hotel rooms (60 per cent) will be designed for optimal long-term stays, which are generally more spacious and feature more in-suite amenities, such as a kitchen/kitchenette and laundry machines.

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Kevin McNaney, an urban planning consultant for the developer, told City Council on Thursday evening that the property will operate under two established hotel brands — distinguishing between short-term and long-term stay offerings — but that the brands are not yet ready to be publicly announced.

Preliminary drawings indicate two distinct hotel lobby areas at ground level, providing one lobby for each hotel brand. There will be entrances into the hotel from both Davie and Granville streets, as well as a grand entrance from the laneway, where the porte cochere pick-up and drop-off area will be located. The building will also include eight elevators, with four dedicated to each brand.

At street level along Granville Street, a restaurant, lounge, and bar will animate the frontage, with transparent window walls that are also designed to open up to the street during fair weather conditions.

Video animation of the approved 33-storey hotel tower at the corner of Granville & Davie streets in downtown Vancouver.

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Guest amenities will occupy the entire fourth level and include a fitness gym, yoga and studio spaces, a spa, an indoor 45-foot-long swimming pool with a hot pool, and covered outdoor terraces overlooking Davie and Granville streets.

But the jewel of the 360-foot-tall tower is its rooftop: the 33rd level is envisioned as a signature destination, featuring an uncovered 90-foot-long outdoor swimming pool, a 5,500 sq. ft. pool patio, terrace, and lounge, along with a 2,000 sq. ft. indoor bar and lounge.

A 5,000 sq. ft. restaurant is located on the second level, and conference and meeting facilities are planned for both a portion of the second level and the entirety of the third level.

Developer and longtime property owner Deecorp Properties first submitted the project’s rezoning application in September 2023. The application took more than two years to reach a public hearing, as it initially did not align with the City’s policies or zoning for the site.

This changed after July 2024, when City Council approved sweeping citywide view cone modifications that relaxed allowable building heights, followed by April 2025 approval of a major package of new citywide policies aimed at catalyzing hotel development at strategic locations — by improving the financial and economic viability of such projects — including along the Granville Strip. Momentum continued in June 2025 with City Council’s approval of the multifaceted Granville Plan as the primary strategy to revitalize the struggling entertainment district.

Together, the new view cone and citywide hotel development policies and the Granville Plan’s prescriptions and stipulations provide substantially increased development potential — through greater allowable density, taller high-rise tower heights, and larger floor plates — intended to help catalyze the entertainment district’s revival.

Except for a limited number of locations, the Granville Plan generally discourages residential uses and instead prescribes an intensification of commercial and employment uses that are not only complementary but also reinforce a thriving entertainment district, such as hotels, offices, restaurants, shops, dining, and entertainment venues. This includes introducing businesses that also bring life to the street during the daytime, as opposed to the current mix of businesses that mainly focus on nighttime activity.

Mark Whitehead, a partner and architect with the project’s lead design firm, Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership, said the additional density and height enabled by the Granville Plan have made the project feasible.

McNaney added that new policies that exclude building development fee payment calculations for spaces like conference and meeting spaces, back-of-house spaces, and hotel operations offices helped make the financial pro forma “more whole since they don’t tend to generate revenue.”

The project team incorporated a significant amount of conference and meeting space for a property of this size, following strong encouragement from local tourism bureau Destination Vancouver, which has identified a growing shortage of hotel-oriented event and function spaces. Beyond typical uses such as weddings and corporate events, these facilities could also serve as secondary venues for large conventions hosted in the city.

“By reducing those fees, increasing the height, [and] allowing larger floor plates, they all came together to make this project viable thanks to City Council’s hotel policy,” said McNaney.

Two underground levels will provide 33 vehicle parking stalls. The total building floor area will reach 392,000 sq. ft., establishing a floor area ratio density of a floor area that is 21.8 times larger than the size of the 18,000 sq. ft. development site.

Gwendal Castellan, the manager of sustainable destination development for Destination Vancouver, expressed strong support for the project during the public meeting and reminded City Council that hotel developments are essential to sustaining tourism — one of Vancouver’s largest economic drivers and employers. Based on forecasts, Metro Vancouver is in need of 20,000 additional hotel rooms over the coming years — including 10,000 within the city of Vancouver, where the demand is greatest.

Without a meaningful increase in new supply, the region risks becoming less competitive in attracting visitors, conferences, conventions, and major events — resulting in significant foregone jobs, economic output, broader benefits, and government revenues. Visitors directly support local shops, restaurants, services, and entertainment establishments with their spending.

“Hotels provide more than visitor accommodation. They support local employment, nearby small businesses and restaurants, contribute to street activity throughout the day and evening, and generate municipal tax revenue that helps fund services residents rely on, all within a built form that fits a mixed-use downtown setting like Granville and Davie,” said Castellan.

“The Granville Street Plan sets a 20-year vision to revitalize Granville Street as a safer, more animated destination with a mix of entertainment, hospitality, and cultural uses. A full-service hotel such as this one at the south end of Granville, close to the entertainment district, Yaletown, Davie Village, and within walking and rapid transit distances of the Vancouver Convention Centre and the stadium, offers a practical example of that vision in action.”

Jane Talbot, the president and CEO of Downtown Van (the local business improvement association for downtown Vancouver), also called this major hotel project “critical” and a “so important catalyst in re-establishing Granville as a dynamic and welcoming entertainment district.”

During the deliberations, ABC city councillors Sarah Kirby-Yung and Peter Meiszner asserted that this initial project — the first of its kind to be approved in the area — would provide a much-needed boost to this prominent intersection, which is particularly known for its heightened public disorder and social challenges along the Granville Strip. They suggested that the project would help instill confidence for other developments to move forward, contributing to the much-needed transformation of the entertainment district.

The municipal government is also leading efforts to address key sources of the Granville Strip’s challenges. Businesses operating along the corridor, as well as organizations representing area merchants, have attributed high levels of crime and public disorder to the concentration of single-room occupancy (SRO) and supportive housing in the area, including former hotels acquired by the provincial government at the height of the pandemic and converted into rapid supportive housing.

Under the Granville Plan, the revitalization strategy includes relocating all SRO and supportive housing uses out of the Granville Strip and into purpose-built housing elsewhere. The City has identified five potential sites elsewhere for the provincial government to achieve such new housing projects.

Recently, the provincial government agreed to permanently close the Lugaat — the former Howard Johnson hotel — located directly across the street from Deecorp Properties’ Davie-Granville development site by June 2026. The municipal government and local businesses are urging the prompt removal of the street’s remaining SRO and supportive housing properties as part of the broader revitalization effort.

Later this winter or early this spring, City Council is also expected to consider Reliance Properties’ rezoning application for 800 Granville St., near the northern end of the entertainment district. The proposal represents the Granville Strip’s other early major redevelopment aimed at kickstarting revitalization efforts.

A drastically revised 800 Granville St. application submitted in March 2025 for the nearly full-city-block site calls for significantly taller buildings, with two towers rising to 43 storeys and 39 storeys — heights made possible by earlier view cone changes that relaxed building height restrictions. The proposal includes more than 500 secured purpose-built rental homes, replacing nearly all of the office space contemplated in the original concept, along with 133,000 sq. ft. of destination retail, dining, and other commercial uses within the base of the complex. The project will also feature a hotel with approximately 100 guest rooms and will fully preserve both the Commodore Ballroom and Commodore Bowling & Billiards.

In an interview with Daily Hive Urbanized in October 2025, Deecorp Properties founder Stanley Dee said his firm is planning a total of three major hotel projects.

In addition to the now-approved Davie-Granville hotel tower project, Dee is pursuing a redevelopment of 717 West Pender St., located farther north along downtown Vancouver’s Granville Street corridor at the northwest corner of Granville Street and West Pender Street. The site is currently occupied by a four-storey office and retail building anchored by a Rexall pharmacy, directly across the street from the Starbucks Reserve.

While still in the early stages of the rezoning and planning process, Dee told Daily Hive Urbanized that the West Pender-Granville proposal would take the form of an approximately 33-storey tower, featuring a luxury hotel in the lower half of the building and strata market ownership condominium homes in the upper half.

The third project is several years behind the first two in terms of design and planning and is proposed for the area around the intersection of Yukon Street and West 8th Avenue, within short walking distance of SkyTrain’s Broadway-City Hall Station.

Altogether, all three hotel projects by Deecorp Properties could generate a combined total of almost 1,000 hotel guest rooms.

According to City of Vancouver staff, there are now 29 projects with a combined total of over 5,800 new hotel rooms in various stages of the development pipeline, with the majority of this potential future hotel room supply being in the rezoning application stage — figures that do not include Deecorp Properties’ second and third hotel proposals.

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