Vancouver City Council Not Ready to Approve Proposed Stanley Park-Area Hotel Project

Vancouver City Council Not Ready to Approve Proposed Stanley Park-Area Hotel Project
News| March 16, 2026| Monte Stewart
Canada + Apartment Buildings

Vancouver city council has sent a proposed hotel project near Stanley Park back to planners for possible revisions.

Council asked Marcon, which is developing the project, and city planners to consider adding below-market and market rental-housing components, Postmedia reported. The decision came after a third day of a public hearing on the potential development.

Council also added a “plus-one” hotel-room provision to the request in accordance with the city’s 2025 hotel policy designed to boost the number of hotel rooms in the city, according to Postmedia.

The property is situated at 2030 Barclay Street in Vancouver’s West End near Lost Lagoon and the main entrance to Stanley Park. The public hearing resulted after Marcon opted to pivot away from its original plan to develop a condominium project on the site..

Henriquez Partners Architects, the project’s designer, filed a revised development application with the city on behalf of the local developer, calling for the hotel instead of condos. Henriquez Partners subsequently reduced the size of the proposed hotel to 25 storeys from 29 and 270 rooms from 292. The suites would include 65 short-term rooms on the upper floors and 205 long-term “serviced apartment rooms” underneath.

If all goes according to plan, the ground floor will include a restaurant. Other amenities would include a swimming pool.

Marcon is seeking to redevelop the Rosellen Suites at Stanley Park hotel. Originally, Marcon intended to develop a 10-storey luxury condo project containing 19 units on the site. The city approved the original development application in 2022.

City council has identified hotel development as a priority, and Destination Vancouver has reported that the region would need 20,000 new hotel rooms by 2050 to meet demand. Of those news rooms, 10,000 are necessary in Vancouver alone.

Since the city’s West End plan predates its interim hotel policy, the proposed project can only be approved by council through site-specific rezoning, according to the application.

City staff have recommended that council support the project. But Postmedia previously reported that the project has received more opposition than support from the public.

Rendering: City of Vancouver/Marcon/Henriquez Partners Architects

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