Chris · May 07, 2008
Andrew Morrison over at UrbanDiner.ca covers Vancouver’s restaurant food scene, but he has a pretty good eye on the hotel trade as well. Thanks to Urban Diner, I discovered that yet another hotel property will open its doors to guests in the downtown core.
Construction on the ParaYso Hotel (para-Why-so?) is expected to kick-off in the summer of 2009. Local hospitality entrepreneur Graham Alexander has finalized a land deal at 620 Seymour street for $5.5M, and he plans to develop a small hotel property at the downtown location.
“The Company plans to build a hotel with a roof top bar lounge, of up to 91 nicely designed interior suites, and energy efficient hotel. The interiors will be exquisite but will be for the 20th century where beauty, green and energy are of high concerns. The development is lead by Graham Alexander, a developer of hotels in Mayan Riviera Mexico and Chilliwack, B.C., Canada.”
[via Yahoo! - & no doubt the PR writer meant 21st century]
The ParaYso Hotel will be located near the financial district, within one block of the new Canada Line shuttle from the Vancouver International Airport and a few blocks from the new convention centre. The hotel lies adjacent to the Steve Nash Sports Gym, Gotham Restaurant, and the Shore Club restaurant.
The 600 block of Seymour Street in Vancouver is not exactly the most upscale strip downtown, and incidentally, the hotel’s location sits almost exactly on the spot where two men were gunned down in a targeted gangland shooting in January of this year.
I’m sure developments like the ParaYso Hotel are exactly what Seymour needs as part of a long-term strategy to rejuvenate the area. The newly renovated Moda Hotel to the South on Seymour, and the Delta Suites to the North of the ParaYso will certainly benefit from more hotel critical mass.
And hey, who doesn’t love roof-top lounges? Watch out Loden—yours isn’t going to be the only one in town.
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