A 29-story hotel tower with a rooftop pool is being built on the site of a low-rise, extended-stay hotel on the edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver’s West End.

Submitted by Henriquez Partners Architects on behalf of developer Marcon, the proposal calls for 65 short-stay rooms and 227 “serviced apartments” at the current site of Rosellen Suites at Stanley Park2030-2038 Barclay Street

According to the City of Vancouver report Shape your city website, the rezoning application for the project was received on July 31. The application booklet was made public on Monday.

“This request is not consistent with the policies adopted by council,” reads the Shape Your City page.

“The city is required to process all rezoning applications submitted and staff’s position on the proposal will be summarized in the background report later in the application process timeline.”

While the developer’s application acknowledges that the proposal does not necessarily fit with the area’s existing zoning or the West End Plan, it also notes that the West End Plan predates the city’s interim hotel development policy, which aims to respond to a shortage of hotel rooms in the city.

The proposal to replace an existing hotel building “supports the city’s goal of creating more hotel rooms without loss of housing,” the application notes.

If approved and built, the new tower would be 100.3 meters (329 feet) tall, with “additional height for rooftop amenity space,” according to the city.

That’s taller than any of the area’s other skyscrapers, although there are several that predate — and exceed — the height limits in the West’s RM-5B zoning district. End.

(Marcon / Henriquez Partners Architectes)

The developer argues that the location and height of the proposed hotel fills a gap in the area’s existing skyline.

“To reinforce the urban setting and reinforce the domed skyline, the tower should be taller than the maximum height of the building, without encroaching on the view cone,” the application booklet states.

The hotel proposal replaces a development permit application that Marcon and his architect submitted in 2018 and which received approval in 2022.

This proposal would have replaced the Rosellen Suites with “a 10-story residential market tower” featuring “19 family-oriented suites.”

The public is invited to comment on the redevelopment project via its page on the Shape Your City website.