Vancouver City Council voted to confirm large policy changes aimed at accelerating the construction of a new hotel.
As the movement, the FIFA 2026 World Cup is the host of Vancouver, along with the hotel capacity of the city, along with the city’s hotel capacity, is in the growing concern.
“As we did in 2002, we have the same amount of rooms today”, “Destination Vancouver CEO Royce Chwin.
“We have to do something about it, for ten years and one and a half back, or, if not, we will lose this important work, which is part of the 9 billion dollar economy.”
An urban worker report, Vancouver currently has 13,000 rooms in 78 hotels. The development pipeline has 4,200 people, but only 1,300 of them are being built or are allowed.
Meanwhile, the destination should be the risk of Vancouver, the city to add 10,000 hotel rooms to the 2050s or up to $ 30 billion.
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Tuesday voting aims to build new hotels in a new city hotel development policy.
For hotel-residential projects used in the mixture, the city also approved the crew recommendations to change the city’s resonation policy and make changes to the Broadway plan to allow hotels on certain sites.
“Today, the report took a good step – for example, in hotels in hotels in hotels in various neighborhoods, for example, in the commercial areas in hotels in the Broadway Plan, only new hotels have more opportunities. Sarah Kirby-Yung said.
“We still heard that it is very difficult to finance and build a hotel project and get along the finish line.”
Everyone supports policy changes.
Critics and Hotel Association employees call the brand on Monday at Vancouver City Hall, “developers” and prioritize the efforts of the city to build a more affordable apartment.
“The hotel staff speaks in politics, and the only reason for a lack of work is a lack of work in the city, most of our members must work for each side,” he said.
“These hotels can not actually point to employees and have these jobs when there is no place for employees to live.”
Several new hotels in the coming years, including 331 rooms in Mariott / PARG, 137 rooms in West Georgia in 49 rooms on the butterfly in West Georgia.
Although other projects remain less determined at this stage, Chwin, members of parliament stated that they are serious to support the sector.
“This really comes to political recommendations that can accelerate or activate the development of these features,” he said.
“Indeed, Vancouver is open to work, this is what we know or otherwise we can do to support the importance of this parliament to the broader economy.”
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