Reliance and Germain Hotels plan new Vancouver hotel

Vancouver’s Reliance Properties and Montreal’s Germain Hotels have launched Vancouver’s latest hotel proposal – one that would see a 12-storey office building at 1111 West Hastings Street get converted into a 180-room boutique hotel. 

Hotel is a designated use for the site, as is office, Reliance Properties CEO Jon Stovell told BIV.

That means no rezoning is needed. 

“It would be just [needing] a minor development permit, just for any outside related work, and a building permit,” he said. “It’s very fast.”

He anticipates construction on the site, at the northwest corner of West Hastings and Thurlow…