Vancouver has 29 hotel projects totalling 5,800 rooms in development plans

 https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-has-29-hotel-projects-totalling-5800-rooms-in-development-pipeline-11714817

The small Westin Bayshore Hotel in Vancouver

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/westin-bayshore-vancouver-best-luxury-hotel  

https://vancouversbestplaces.com/vancouver-hotels/vancouver-westin-bayshore-hotel

Of course the Vancouver location wasn't allowed to be as big as the Westin in Seattle. Just like the Hotel+Vancouver wasn't designed to be as tall and especially as wide as the Royal+York+Hotel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Seattle "The hotel originally consisted of a single 40 story tower, today's south tower, reaching a height of 121 m (397 ft). The tower was topped out in January 1969 and the hotel opened on June 29, 1969." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Seattle#History "The 137 m (449 ft), 47-story north tower opened in June 1982..." 

While Vancouver is only warm for half of the year, at best, the old Bayshore Inn wasn't allowed to be as big as anything in Waikiki. 

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/council-approves-new-policy-address-vancouvers-hotel-room-shortage.pdf 

https://corporatemeetingsnetwork.ca/2025/05/01/tackling-vancouvers-hotel-shortage-crisis/

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage 

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/vancouver-s-last-undeveloped-waterfront-site-could-house-convention-centre-hotel-according-to-city-memo/ar-AA1vO3Bz 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Westin_Seattle_from_Olive_8.jpg
Unlike Seattle, Vancouver no longer has its first 40 story hotel. Perhaps if the city had allowed a much taller condo tower, the hotel tower could have been saved. Or, a new double tower combination of a 55 story hotel and 65 story condo tower. Instead, the old landmark was replaced with 2 stumps that have less than 40 stories.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Empire_Hotel_Landmark.jpg/330px-Empire_Hotel_Landmark.jpg 

Other cities seemed to be more interested in cultivating their hotel and tourism industry. Even encouraging more hotel towers. However, Vancouver with its very strict (multigenerational) imposed height restrictions, kept falling behind.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/sep/27/wipe-out-era-1970s-vanish-vancouver 

After several decades of keeping Vancouver hotels short and small, now the city realized that there aren't enough hotel rooms for the tourism industry. 

https://globalnews.ca/video/11127278/biv-vancouver-needs-thousands-more-hotel-rooms

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-tourism-risk-hotel-development-construction-policies 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_Seattle Vancouver has yet to permit a big, bulky hotel like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Square_Tower While this isn't a hotel, its 60m taller than the tallest building in Vancouver.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telus_Sky No hotel, just an office and residential tower. However, its about 22m taller than the tallest in Vancouver. 

The (unofficial) rule is that almost everything in Vancouver has to be scaled back or watered down in size.  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotels  

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Hotel+Vancouver

World Cup lodging shortfall predicted in Vancouver

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/airbnb-wants-str-rules-relaxed-for-upcoming-2026-fifa-world-cup-in-vancouver-1.7649128  

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

https://www.destinationvancouver.com/media/media-releases/BC-hotel-association-provides-recommendations-to-spur-new-hotel-development 

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.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Sydney_CBD_on_a_sunny_day.jpg/960px-Sydney_CBD_on_a_sunny_day.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Global_Citizen_Festival_Central_Park_New_York_City Anything like the VMV would have thwartted NYC so badly. 

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.

 https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

Long-term plan to completely rebuild and expand Vancouver General Hospital

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-general-hospital-vgh-campus-redevelopment-preliminary-concept 

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://www.tmc.edu/about-tmc  

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

The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles

The Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel should have been twice the height. It's only a 367-foot (112 m), 33-story hotel, but it should have been at least as tall as the Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel in Atlanta or the Renaissance_Center in Detroit, or The_Stamford in Singapore. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel#Floors_and_elevators

https://socallandmarks.com/index.php/2022/09/16/bonaventure-hotel/

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-bonaventure-hotel-history-19511087.php 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bonaventure-hotel-los-angeles-california 

https://movie-locations.com/travel/la/travel-downtown-05.php

http://www.experiencingla.com/2013/02/tour-o-downtown-part-i.html

https://portmanarchitects.com/project/the-westin-bonaventure 

Number of rooms	1,358
Number of suites	135

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Bonaventure_Hotel#Floors_and_elevators

It would take LA a long time to have a much taller hotel tower. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Center 73 floors at 727 ft (222 m)  

Number of rooms	1,246
Number of suites	52

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_Center#History 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel  

Number of rooms	1,068
Number of suites	40

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel#Architectural_details 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisshtel_The_Stamford 73 floors at 226 metres (741 ft) 

Number of rooms	1,252

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swisshotel_The_Stamford#History

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://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Toronto_-_ON_-_Royal_York_Hotel.jpg

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."

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://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/Hotel_vanc_2007.jpg/960px-Hotel_vanc_2007.jpg However, some people might not have liked an extension of the HV to become the tallest building in the city again.

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

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://retail-insider.com/retail-insider/2025/04/vancouver-needs-10000-new-hotel-rooms-by-2050-new-report-outlines-roadmap-for-growth-jobs-and-city-building/

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/04/09/vancouver-needs-10000-more-hotel-rooms-by-2050-tourism-organization-says/

https://storeys.com/vancouver-hotel-development-policy-changes/

https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/council-approves-new-policy-address-vancouvers-hotel-room-shortage.pdf

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms

Vancouver's forgotten streetcars and interurban trams

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/transportation-old/interurban-streetcar-hydrogen-rail-line-fraser-valley-bc-1942783

Fortunately, Toronto, NO, SF and Melbourne never got rid of all their streetcar and tram lines.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/downtown-vancouver-false-creek-streetcar-route-map

While backwards Vancouver wanted to be among the first cities to get rid of them, Vancouver will likely be one of the last cities to bring them back.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2021/04/06/a-bump-in-the-road-kits-points-hidden-streetcar-line/

Atlanta, SD, LA, Edmonton, Calgary, Seattle & Portland brought back some of their trollies in the form of modern LRT or tram-trains.

https://montecristomagazine.com/community/vancouvers-forgotten-streetcars

The sad irony is that Vancouver, Burnaby & NW really could have benefitted from following the Toronto, SF and Melbourne examples. 

https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/history/last-ride-oak-streetcar-vancouver-1937040

https://www.facebook.com/groups/128486813979056/posts/1968090176685368

 https://maps.nicholsonroad.com/bcer/

https://humantransit.org/2010/02/vancouver-the-almost-perfect-grid.html

There used too be a streetcar route along Robson St., Denman St. & Davie St. A revived version of this could provide a nice downtown transit loop. However, that would go against the backwards mentality of Vancouver. Fortunately, the Vancouver mentality never made it to Atlanta & Dallas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta_Streetcar#Downtown_Loop_route_funded

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Streetcar

Unfortunatly, Vancouver & BC are all about congestive planning.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/2026-fifa-world-cup-vancouver-1.7559067

With less than a year to go, its impossible to revive any streetcar lines, because that can take 5-10 years. There isn't even a network of regional bus bridges. Such inept transportation planning means that busses have to squeeze onto bridges that are mostly just 2 lanes each way. 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-rising-costs-fifa-2026-world-cup-1.7573669

Despite the first SkyTrain line opening in 1985, it took until 2025 to start having5 car trains. The 2nd & 3rd lines are still only running 2 car trains.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-short-on-hotel-rooms-silent-on-safety-costs-for-2026-world-cup/

Of course the city is decades behind in keeping up with having enough hotel rooms.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-hotel-shortage-2026-world-cup-1.7117696

https://vancouverfwc26.ca 

https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/vancouver-host-seven-matches-canada-stadium-bc-place

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=Trams-Trains+and+Streetcars

Metro Vancouver beaches with E.coli advisories

 https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/interactive-map-vancouver-beaches-e-coli-advisories-2024-9130797

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://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/Sheraton_Waikiki_from_Waikiki_Beach.jpg In Vancouver, its tough enough just to have a hotel with 700 rooms.

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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms

Vancouver short on hotel rooms, silent on safety costs for 2026 World Cup

 https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/vancouver-short-on-hotel-rooms-silent-on-safety-costs-for-2026-world-cup/

https://corporatemeetingsnetwork.ca/2025/05/01/tackling-vancouvers-hotel-shortage-crisis/

https://www.staymagazine.ca/articles/vancouvers-make-or-break-moment-for-future-events-and-tourism

https://www.destinationvancouver.com/inspirations/city/lack-of-hotel-capacity-in-vancouver-could-cost-the-city-billions-in-lost-economic-impact

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-hotel-shortage-2026-world-cup-1.7117696

https://www.bcbusiness.ca/industries/real-estate/land-values-how-the-hotel-shortage-in-vancouver-is-coinciding-with-a-boom-in-tourism/

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/metro-vancouver-hotel-supply-shortage-demand

https://council.vancouver.ca/20250415/documents/r1.pdf

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms

New hotels in Montreal

 https://blog.mtl.org/en/new-hotels

https://www.newhotelsopening.com/new-hotels-in-montreal.html

Unlike Montreal, Vancouver keeps falling behind, because of its provincial backwater mentality.

https://www.biv.com/news/real-estate/vancouver-needs-10k-more-hotel-rooms-says-report-10508458

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotels

Granville bar owners demand immediate action ahead of FIFA

 https://globalnews.ca/news/11085900/never-seen-it-this-bad-granville-bar-owners-demand-immediate-action-ahead-of-fifa/

There seems to be an unofficial, LET THE CITY GO TO $HIT attitude. That's especially the case with Granville Mall and Gastown. 

https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/share-your-thoughts-on-granville-street-feb-2025.aspx

The city & region desperately needs thousands of new hotel rooms. Yet, the extreme height limits in Vancouver doesn't allow developers to put 30-40 floors on top of a 30-40 story hotel. Some cities can get enough steady business that a hotel can be over 70 stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westin_Peachtree_Plaza_Hotel Atlanta

The Marina_Bay_Sands in Singapore was possible, because nothing like the Vancouver building restrictions gets in the way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Bay_Sands#Expansion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JW_Marriott_Marquis_Dubai

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_hotels#Completed_or_topped_out

Vancouver is Canada's top hotel market

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-canada-hotel-market-us-visitors-tariffs-impact  

"Without major policy changes, the number of hotel rooms in Vancouver will continue to stagnate, making it harder and more expensive to visit the city.

If the City is serious about addressing Vancouver’s hotel shortage, it needs to introduce real incentives to make big hotel development attractive.

The City must allow condominiums to be integrated into hotel developments, providing an essential financial cushion for developers. At the same time, building height restrictions need to be relaxed — without taller buildings, there’s not enough strata residential use to subsidize hotel construction." https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/vancouver-hotel-room-shortage-crisis-solutions

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms

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. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

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.travelpulse.ca/news/hotels-and-resorts/hotel-construction-to-add-457-rooms-to-greater-vancouver-inventory

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

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/about-multiculturalism-anti-racism/about-act.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

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

Trash tycoon reveals how 'miracle' Malibu house survived wildfires when everyone else's burned

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14272575/trash-tycoon-david-steiner-reveals-malibu-house-survived-la-fires.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14272229/Anthony-Hopkins-issues-message-losing-home-LA-wildfires.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14272741/A-listers-fight-sold-hotel-suites-fleeing-LA-mansions-sip-cocktails-Ozempic-delivered-rooms-city-burns-feels-like-scene-Titanic-reveals-CAROLINE-GRAHAM.html

Fairmont Olympic Hotel in Seattle and Fairmont Palliser Hotel in Calgary

 https://seattlebusinessmag.com/news/los-angeles-developer-buys-historic-fairmont-olympic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Olympic_Hotel 1924 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Olympic_Hotel#History

https://seattlebusinessmag.com/tourismhospitality/seattles-olympic-hotel-has-been-magnet-rich-and-famous-over-decades

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Olympic_Hotel_circa_1925.jpg

Calgary had its version of a grand hotel a decade earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairmont_Palliser_Hotel 1914

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Fairmont_Palliser_Hotel_1.jpg

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/the-palliser-hotel-13-treasured-photos-of-calgarys-castle-from-a-century-ago

https://www.historichotels.org/hotels-resorts/fairmont-palliser/media-gallery.php 

Of course Seattle and Calgary would eventually allow for taller residential towers than what restrictive Vancouver would permit. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms

Hilton Hotel with nearly 400 rooms to be built at future Oak-VGH SkyTrain station

 https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/hilton-hotel-888-west-broadway-vancouver

This is part of the southern extension of downtown Vancouver, yet it has to be shorter than the 103 m, 340 ft Old_City_Hall_in_Toronto. Even shorter than the 92 m (302 ft) Brisbane_City_Hall. Those are both little buildings by today's standards. Yet, in certain parts of the Vancouver core, they would be consider to be too tall. It even has to be shorter than the 245 ft (75 m) King_Street_Station in Seattle. Fortunately, these 3 cities will never be Vancouverized. This, keep Vancouver small & stunted mentality really sucks, but it's all part of the KEEP THEM OUT agenda. 

Such restrictive & congestive planning helps Vancouver & BC maintain, the keep it small symbolic approach to things.

U2 ZOO Station

 https://www.u2zoostation.com

While lush Vancouver can't seem to get enough hotel rooms built, LV just keeps on building more entertainment facilities in the desert.

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://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/no-rooms-at-the-inns-knock-on-effects-of-vancouvers-hotel-shortage

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. 

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=BC+hotel+shortage

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=hotel+rooms