Overview
- City councillors approved a six-storey, 250-room floating hotel next to the Vancouver Convention Centre in Coal Harbour after a public hearing.
- The project is a joint venture between Sunborn International and the Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre and includes a bar, restaurant, shops, a cafe, a spa, and new viewing areas connected to shore by pedestrian bridges.
- City officials call the design low-carbon with no fossil fuels or discharges, and the developers still need environmental permits with an estimated two years to build and move the vessel.
- Unite Here Local 40 and other speakers opposed the plan, pointing to thousands of hotel rooms already approved or in the pipeline and questioning the need at this time.
- Operational plans rely on existing Convention Centre loading and nearby transit, and proponents say the project would support about 200 to 225 jobs once open.