https://www.fairmontpacificrim.com/stay/suite-x/
https://www.fairmont.com/en/hotels/vancouver/fairmont-pacific-rim/rooms/vi1z.room.html
https://vieamaggi.com/lifestyle/fairmont-pacific-rim-suite-x-by-douglas-coupland/
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Suite X in Vancouver, BC
Thursday, October 30, 2025
World Cup lodging shortfall predicted in Vancouver
The proposed 27-storey hotel tower at the edge of Stanley Park is drawing pushback from West End residents over its scale https://vancouversun.com/news/proposed-west-end-tower-that-aims-to-fill-vancouvers-hotel-shortage Parking lots and almost delapadeted buildings should be selected first. This building still seems to be in reasonable shape.
https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-needs-10k-more-hotel-rooms-says-report-10508458
https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-major-hotel-policy-overhaul-room-shortage
Lots of people in some parts of the West_End end are still accustomed to stumpy buildings, despite the very high land costs.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Vancouver-stanley-park.jpg/960px-Vancouver-stanley-park.jpg Many other cities aren't afraid to build tall close to the water or parks.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Vancouver_west_end.jpg/960px-Vancouver_west_end.jpg People shouldn't be displace just becaus of a new development. An agreement should be reached so that they can still remain in the new structure. However, it's the height issue that usually keeps popping up. A lot of people that still remember Vancouver as a provincial backwater of a city want it to remain that way for as long as possible.
https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/2030-2038-barclay-st , https://stop2030barclay.ca
https://henriquezpartners.com/projects/2030-barclay The height proposal is at lest a dozen floors too short, it should be about 20 stories taller.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/2030-barclay-street-vancouver-stanley-park-hotel-tower
https://storeys.com/marcon-barclay-street-vancouver-hotel The issue here is that a lot of people don't want a stump replaced with an atempt of a taller building. The people that live there should have the option to live in the new building. If the city and the developer could reach an agreement to allow the current residents to move into the lower floors of the tower. Then remain there at a reasonable rental rate for as long as they want. Then eventually after all the former residents have moved on or passed on, the lower floors could be repurposed into hotel rooms. If a developer in such a situation could agree to that, then the city should allow them to build 15-20 floors higher than 27 stories.
That gets back to the height restriction issue in Vancouver. Other cities have allowed tall buildings right up to the edge of a park. It seems that no one from Vancouver was able to ever stop Sydney. Rather, the Vancouver Mind Virus (VMV) never made it there to thwart big, bustling Sydney.
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Of course it would have been great if there was future space south of the Hotel+Vancouver (with only 507 rooms) to build a 55-65 story tower. A VPL and Hotel+Vancouver tower could have been started there in the mid 1950s, but Vancouver was still too much of a provincial backwater then. The Fairmont_Royal_York is nice and wide with 1,363 rooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_St._Francis "...the St. Francis one of the largest hotels in the city, with more than 1,254 rooms and suites."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilton_San_Francisco_Union_Square "Renovated in 2017, it is the largest hotel on the West Coast,[8] with 1,921 rooms."
Fortunately, Sydney, Melbourne, SF and Toronto were never under anything like a Vancouverization agenda. Somehow that backwards mentality was never adopted in most real cities.
https://bcbusiness.ca/industries/real-estate/land-values-how-the-hotel-shortage-in-vancouver-is-coinciding-with-a-boom-in-tourism The BC Mind Virus is so firmly entrenched that its still very difficult to properly upgrade things.
Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Long-term plan to completely rebuild and expand Vancouver General Hospital
It's about time that backwards BC start building up a proper big city size medical center in watered-down Vancouver. Another proper big city medical complex should be built in Surrey.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%27s_Hospital#Facilities
Houston, TX has been building theirs over the past several decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center#Hospitals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center#Cityscape_and_infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Hermann_Memorial_City_Medical_Center#Facilities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_Complex_Goi%C3%A2nia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_hospitals
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurie_Children%27s_Hospital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Medical_and_Dental_University#Campuses
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herlev_Hospital
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hospital_campuses#Ranked_by_capacity
Backwater BC has been under a multigenerational, KEEP THINGS SMALL OR INADEQUATE agenda for too damn long. The overbearing implemented symbolism is too much! An inept 3 lane Lions+Gate+Bridge and an absurd Canada+Line with only 2 car trains, are classic BC Mind Virus (BCMV) B$! Even the 4 lane Pattullo+Bridge+replacement is another example of the BCMV. Somehow, Vancouver & BC fell behind with having enough hotel rooms. Its as if the city & province just didn't think that adding hotels would actually help the local tourism business. The Greater Vancouver Region should have made it easier for more hotels to be built by cutting out so much red tape.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotels
Friday, September 26, 2025
Toronto Royal York Hotel vs. The Hotel Vancouver
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York
When you live in stumpy Vancouver for several decades, its always amazing to see how much wider the buildings are allowed to be in other cities.
https://torontopics.me/2016/08/29/fairmont-royal-york-hotel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York#Location "Opened on 11 June 1929, the Châteauesque-styled building is 124 metres (407 ft) tall, and contains 28 floors."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Royal_York#Design 1363 rooms
https://www.thefairmontroyalyork.com , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Hotels_%26_Resorts#Properties
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vancouver
"Opened in May 1939, the Châteauesque-styled building is considered one of Canada's grand railway hotels. The hotel stands 112.47-metre-tall (369.0 ft), and contains 17 floors."
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/The_Fairmont_Hotel_Vancouver_%2842914562450%29.jpg Had the entier block been reseverd for future hotel space, a 65 story tower could have eventually been built, beside the first phase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Vancouver#Design
https://www.straight.com/living/experience-magic-of-autumn-at-fairmont-hotel-vancouver
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/CN_Tower_observation_level_2023d.jpg Toronto like most real cities, is able to set aside enough space to go wider. Narrow-minded Vancouver just keeps going the other way by continually watering the scale of things down.
The Hotel Vancouver could have been designed with future expansion in mind to its south. The Royal York had enough space to eventually add a wing to the east side of the building.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+Hotels
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Hotel+Vancouver
Monday, July 14, 2025
Construction starts on new Listel Hotel and rental housing tower on Robson Street
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/listel-hotel-vancouver-robson-street-redevelopment-construction
As a small-minded city, Vancouver just hasn't had the same interest or motivation to encourage or allow big & tall hotels to be built.
https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-needs-10k-more-hotel-rooms-says-report-10508458
Proper big cities that really want to capitalize on tourism will allow hotels with 1000, 2000 or even 4000 rooms.
https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-major-hotel-policy-overhaul-room-shortage
It's been very difficult for Vancouver to have a single tower hotel with at least 700 rooms.
https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-development-policy-changes/
Thursday, June 26, 2025
High Density Plans for Vancouver
Well, Vancouver still isn't allowing any residential tower to rival the tallest in Edmonton, Calgary & Seattle. BC is 75% mountainous yet, there are only a handful of potential major urban regions in this backwater wilderness of a province.
Vancouver could get more benefits from developers if there was more incentive to build taller hotels and residential towers, as long as there was a good component of affordable housing.
Metro Vancouver beaches with E.coli advisories
Despite Vancouver being cold, depressing & damp for half of the year, the urban beaches should be in better shape. Plus, there should be a lot more hotel rooms in the metropolitan region.
Fortunately, other urban beaches around the world realize that it hurts their tourism business if they have crappy beaches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland#Sport_and_recreation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland#Transport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Isles_Beach,_Florida
https://www.miamiandbeaches.com/things-to-do/beaches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waik%C4%ABk%C4%AB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheraton_Waikiki_Hotel This hotel isn't 64 stories, it only has 32, but it has over 1600 rooms. Vancouver has been very reluctant to have wide buildings like this.
| Number of rooms | 1636 |
|---|---|
| Number of suites | 131 |
| Number of restaurants | 2 |
https://www.cntraveler.com/hotels/united-states/honolulu/hyatt-regency-waikiki-resort---spa Over 1200 rooms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Seattle 1260 rooms.
It's been very difficult for Vancouver to think, plan & build on a big scale. Especially, with some of the most restrictive building limits around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Vancouver 650 rooms. Despite not being close to a beach, there should have been a provision to have a 2nd tower next to the Hyatt_Regency_Vancouver. Or, enough space to double the width of the existing building. Or, add about 20 floors to the single hotel tower. If the Royal_Centre complex was always going to just consist of 2 towers, then the office tower & the hotel tower should have been designed to eventually add another 20 stories. Not a problem for Seattle or Calgary, because they are allowed to be proper big cities.
https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-hotels/en-US/yvrph-hyatt-vancouver-downtown-alberni Only about a quarter of Vancouver's tallest building is a hotel.
Cleaner beaches and more support for tourism would be of great benefit to Vancouver & BC. Especially, for taller & wider hotels, but that's what a big city would do. Vancouver is still a small-minded city that occasionally likes to pretend that its grown up.
https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Metro+Vancouver+beaches
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Friday, February 28, 2025
Is Too little being done to fix Vancouver’s hotel room shortage crisis?
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-crisis-solutions
How can a city that wants to cultivate its tourism business not encourage more hotel development?
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/keefer-house-hotel-vancouver-chinatown
There just aren't enough BC+hotels to meet current and future demands.
Thursday, February 20, 2025
30-storey tower with a Marriott hotel and rental homes proposed for the Yaletown part of Vancouver
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/888-896-cambie-street-vancouver-marriott-yaletown-hotel-npg
This should be a mixed-use hotel and tower of at least 65 stories.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-hotel-shortage-2026-world-cup-1.7117696
From 1985 to 2010, there should have been a continual hotel expansion. Then, from 2010 & well into the 2040s, the number of hotel+rooms should still keep growing.
The number of BC+Hotels must dramatically be increased in order to meet growing tourism demands. However, there is a multigenerational mentality or agenda to symbolically keep things small and inadequate in backwards BC.
Despite its size, Canada has less than 1% of the world's population. BC is 23 times the size of Switzerland, yet it still doesn't even have the population of 1 CH.
There are 2 prominent mindsets that would like to keep Canada having less than 1% of the population. The first mindset would still like Canada to be primarily just for people of European descent. The other mindset just has an overall, KEEP THEM OUT mentality, because its good for the environment.
It seems odd that in this day & age, there is a mindset that would like Canada to still be a Whitman's Paradise. Then the extreme environmentalists just want the rest of the world to deal with most of the population & keep Canada under 1%.
Since most of the world is nonwhite, there almost seems to a crossover of the KEEP THEM OUT agenda. Since most of the world's population is nonwhite, a SLOW GROWTH AGENDA would primarily be directed towards nonwhites.
Multiculturalism_in_Canada should mean that everyone can retain their heritage & cultural identity as well as be part of the nation at large.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism_in_Canada#Criticisms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiculturalism_in_Canada#Historical_context
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komagata_Maru_incident
https://www.canada.ca/en/services/culture/canadian-identity-society/multiculturalism.html
https://www.multiculturalcanada.ca , https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rp02_8-dr02_8/p2.html
I have never been to Europe, but my ancestors are from there.
https://ancnl.ca/guide/culture-and-social-life/multiculturalism-in-canada/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_demographic_decline
The White vs. the rest of the world mentality is becoming more out of place in the 21st century.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-diverse-countries
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Vancouver's tourism board sounding alarm bells over lack of hotel capacity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/destination-vancouver-hotel-challenges-1.6770086
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_hotels It's always amazing to see what other cities can do, simply because they aren't in BC.
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand
https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-shortage-council-motion/
Not having enough BC+hotels is like a slap in the face to the local tourism or hospitality industry. There should have been more civic cooperation to allow for larger and taller hotels.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
The Stack Tower, or is it just another stumpy office building in Vancouver, BC?
It's all about Stumps+and+Towers.
There is no office tower in Vancouver or BC that has ever been allowed to have a 40th floor. Seattle has the 76 story B of A tower & Toronto has the 72 story BMO tower. That's because those cities aren't under anything like the restrictions and limitations that Vancouver has. If you can't build a wall around BC, the next best thing is to limit or reduce the scale of things. Then continually fall behind with the overall infrastructure.
Vancouver not only has limited the scale of office towers, but residential towers as well. It would seem that there is more of a demand now for residential towers than office towers.
Seattle, Calgary & Edmonton all have allowed a residential tower to be taller than anything in Vancouver.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Vancouver+House
London, UK for the longest time, refused to permit taller buildings. Then eventually as the land became so expensive, they eventually started to allow some towers that even rivaled that of Paris & Frankfurt. Some of the towers would not even be stumps when compared to those in NYC & Chicago.
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage If the city would allow taller buildings, then the hotel companies could build more rooms on the lower half, while providing condos on the upper half. Or, visa versa.
https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-shortage-council-motion Fortunatly, many other cities are able to keep up with getting more hotel rooms built. https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2023/09/08/vancouver-hotels-shortage-city-councillor/
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/city-of-vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-new-policies
Of course by the late 1800s, Montreal & Toronto had a sense of becoming major cities. Then by the early & mid 1900s, it became even more apparent. In the early 21st century, Vancouver is still stuck in a multi-decade rut of wanting to stunt, thwart or hold back the city in any way possible.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+No+Fun+City
Most of the regional bridges or crossings have been deliberately kept so narrow that it's almost impossible to have a proper regional express bus network to compliment the short sighted Skytrain stations.
All the narrow bridges should have had additional Bus+and+HOV+Lane bridges by now.
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=HOV
The stump city has so much potential, but only if Vancouver reaches for the sky.
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