Bosa Properties is seeking to develop one Hilton hotel along Vancouver’s Broadway corridor instead of two approved previously.

The local development company now intends to construct rental-apartment units in an 11-storey tower connected via a podium to a 15-storey hotel on the site at West Broadway and Laurel Street. Bosa Properties has filed a text amendment with municipal planners, and the city is considering the request under the Broadway Plan.

If all goes according to the developer’s wishes, the revamped tower will contain 105 rental suites with 20% of those classified as affordable housing and rented at below-market rates.

“The revised program is required to obtain the necessary financing and to ensure the viability of the project,” said Henriquez Partners Architects in the text amendment filed on behalf of Bosa Properties.

This shift comes after Bosa Properties dropped its original plan for an office tower along with the hotel. Henriquez succeeded in getting that revision approved in 2024.

If the city approves the latest shift, Bosa Properties will deliver a 279-room hotel bearing the Hilton Curio banner, along with the 105 secured multi-family rental units, above the podium. The project is also slated to include ground-floor retail spaces.

“Pairing hotel and residential is one of six key recommendations by Destination Vancouver and the British Columbia Hotel Association in their Hotel Community Impact Assessment from April 2025, and will ensure that Bosa Properties can deliver the much needed hotel rooms, secured rental housing, retail and amenities, needed in Vancouver and at this critical location directly next to the new Oak-VGH station and [Vancouver General] Hospital,” said Henriquez.

The architecture firm noted that residential use is not permitted in that area of West Broadway. But Henriquez asked the city to make an exception in this case, citing aging existing rental-housing stock that will need major repairs and, in some cases, redevelopment, over the next 30 years.

The city’s general manager of planning, urban design and sustainability is recommending that city council approve the revision, noting that it is consistent with the intent of the Broadway Plan.

The site previously contained a seven-storey hotel and the Fairview Pub.

company’s revised request is not expected to receive much resistance, because the location currently houses the closed 117-room, seven-storey hotel and the Fairview Pub.

The city approved the original development plan in January 2023.

Rendering: Henriquez Partners Architects/Bosa Properties/City of Vancouver