Le Germain Hotel Vancouver

Le Germain Hotel Vancouver is a planned full conversion of a 1966-built, 12-storey office tower at 1111 West Hastings Street in Coal Harbour into roughly 180 rooms, developer Reliance Properties' answer to Metro Vancouver's persistent hotel-room shortage. It would be the first British Columbia hotel for Quebec-based Germain Hotels, cleared a development permit in late 2025, and is targeted to open before 2029, though no construction start date has been confirmed.

The place

The hotel is planned inside a 12-storey office tower at 1111 West Hastings Street, at the southwest corner of West Cordova and Thurlow in Vancouver's Coal Harbour neighbourhood — steps from the Coal Harbour seawall, Jack Poole Plaza, the Vancouver Convention Centre and the Canada Place cruise terminal. It would become the fourth hotel in the immediate area, joining the Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront, the Coast Coal Harbour Vancouver Hotel and the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel nearby, plus the Fairmont Pacific Rim just to the east.

The concept

Local developer Reliance Properties announced in March 2025 that it will convert its 1966-built, 12-storey office tower — roughly 96,000 square feet of leasable space, valued at just under $50 million — entirely into a hotel operated under Quebec-based Germain Hotels' boutique Le Germain brand, the chain's 22nd property across 12 Canadian cities and its ninth Le Germain-branded hotel, but its first anywhere in British Columbia. Because the site was already zoned for hotel use, the project needed a development permit rather than a full rezoning, which Reliance secured in late 2025. Montreal firm LemayMichaud Architecture Design is handling the conversion, which Reliance frames explicitly as a response to Metro Vancouver's hotel-room shortage — a March 2023 Destination Vancouver report estimated the region needs 20,000 additional rooms — arriving alongside a persistently weak downtown office market (Vancouver's office vacancy averaged 11.5% at the end of 2024, higher still for older Class B and C stock like this tower).

Dining & wellness

Renderings show a major restaurant destination planned for what is currently the office building's lobby, with the tower's existing outdoor terrace converted into a restaurant patio; no restaurant operator, chef or opening-day food and beverage program has been announced.