Hilton West Broadway hotel and rental housing approved by Vancouver City Council | Daily Hive

2025 concept of 888 West Broadway, Vancouver, with the Hilton hotel and rental housing. (Henriquez Partners Architects/Bosa Properties)

A prominent site in Central Broadway is set for a major transformation after Vancouver City Council on Thursday unanimously and swiftly greenlighted the latest revised concept for a new mixed-use hotel development at 888 West Broadway.

This is the redevelopment of the former Park Inn & Suites by Radisson at the southeast corner of the intersection of Laurel Street and West Broadway — strategically located immediately east of SkyTrain’s future Oak-VGH Station on the Millennium Line extension, and just half a city block north of Vancouver General Hospital (VGH).

The building heights will reach 14 storeys and 10 storeys, with an attached base podium. There will be a 279-room hotel under Hilton’s Curio Collection brand and 105 secured purpose-built rental homes, with 10 per cent of the units secured at below-market rents.

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As previously reported by Daily Hive Urbanized for nearly a decade, this long-envisioned redevelopment has gone through ownership and design team changes and a number of major revisions to its uses and design concept. The previous applications for those earlier concepts were also approved by the municipal government.

For all iterations, there was always a hotel component. But at certain junctions over the years, the project has pivoted away from including major office space and from being a 100 per cent hotel project with roughly 400 guest rooms, not once but twice, with secured purpose-built rental housing now joining reduced hotel uses in the latest iteration.

The revisions reflect the ever-changing market conditions before and after the pandemic, with weak office space demand, surging hotel room demand, growing construction costs, and municipal policies such as the Broadway Plan and specific policies intended to catalyze hotel development. Change of use has been the project’s main tool to improve its financial and economic viability, as it cannot flexibly add density due to the strict federally-regulated building height restrictions to protect the helicopter flight path for VGH’s helipad.

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Site of 888 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Henriquez Partners Architects/Bosa Properties)

2025 concept of 888 West Broadway, Vancouver, with the Hilton hotel and rental housing. (Henriquez Partners Architects/Bosa Properties)

Bosa Properties’ newly approved rezoning generates a hotel with a net gain of 162 guest rooms compared to the former Radisson property, including 223 traditional short-term stay suites and 56 long-term stay suites, which are generally larger units with more amenities, such as kitchenettes and in-suite laundry. Long-term stay units will help serve the needs of VGH, such as visiting families, staff, and researchers.

Moreover, over the coming decades, the VGH campus is set for significant expansion, which will add to the overnight accommodations demand.

“Council’s approval allows us to advance much-needed hotel lodging and purpose-built rental housing in one of the city’s most important employment and healthcare hubs,” said Kyle Wright, vice president of development at Bosa Properties, in a statement.

“By addressing these needs directly next to future rapid transit and Vancouver General Hospital, we’re creating homes for residents — including health care workers — while also providing much-needed accommodation for patients, families, and visitors.”

Henriquez Partners Architects is the project’s lead design firm. The approval of the revised rezoning enables the project to proceed further into detailed design in the development permit and building permit application stages.

2025 concept of 888 West Broadway, Vancouver, with the Hilton hotel and rental housing. (Henriquez Partners Architects/Bosa Properties)

This is the fourth new hotel project within close proximity to Oak-VGH Station.

This cluster includes the approved 12-storey AC Hotel by Marriott at 901 West Broadway with 151 rooms; a proposed 16-storey hotel at 888 West 8th Ave. with 152 rooms; and a proposed 16-storey hotel with 183 guest rooms at 896 West 8th Ave. and 2412 Laurel St.

All four projects with a combined total of 765 guest rooms are within a one city block radius of the future public transit hub, not including the only existing hotel in the immediate vicinity — the 197-room Holiday Inn Vancouver-Centre Broadway.

The latest approval of 888 West Broadway also marks the third hotel-and-rental hybrid project advanced by Bosa Properties within Vancouver.

Construction is underway on the redevelopment of the former Listel Hotel Vancouver at 1300 Robson St., a partnership between Bosa Properties and Listel Hospitality Group. That project will deliver 183 hotel rooms under the Hyatt brand, along with 133 secured purpose-built rental homes.

Earlier this month, City Council also approved plans for the redevelopment of the former Army & Navy site. The project, known as Cohen Block, is being delivered by Army & Navy Properties in partnership with Bosa Properties and will bring 738 secured purpose-built rental homes and a 179-room hotel to Gastown and the Downtown Eastside.

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