{"id":594165,"date":"2026-04-10T06:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:02:19","slug":"19-storey-social-housing-tower-proposed-to-replace-former-hotel-near-hastings-park-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/594165\/","title":{"rendered":"19-storey social housing tower proposed to replace former hotel near Hastings Park | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Vancouver is taking a major new step to redevelop the former Ramada Hotel just east of Hastings Park.<\/p>\n<p>The former hotel \u2014 a three-storey building constructed in 1980 with 57 suites, located mid-block at 3475 East Hastings St. \u2014 was acquired by the municipal government in 2013 to serve as temporary supportive housing.<\/p>\n<p>Currently serving as transitional supportive housing uses primarily for Indigenous people, it is called \u201cSkeena House\u201d \u2014 operated by non-profit entities Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre Society and Community Builders.<\/p>\n<p>Working with TKAD Architecture &amp; Design, the municipal government has submitted a new rezoning application to redevelop the property into a 202-ft.-tall, 19-storey, mixed-use social housing tower.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"3475 East Hastings Street Vancouver social housing\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"772\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2260360\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3475-East-Hastings-Street-Vancouver-social-housing-4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2260360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of 3475 East Hastings St., Vancouver. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"3475 East Hastings Street Vancouver social housing\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"606\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2260357\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3475-East-Hastings-Street-Vancouver-social-housing-3.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2260357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Site of 3475 East Hastings St., Vancouver. (Google Maps)<\/p>\n<p>There will be 176 social housing units, with a unit size mix of 18 one-bedroom units, 72 one-bedroom units, 54 two-bedroom units, and 32 three-bedroom units.<\/p>\n<p>About 6,500 sq. ft. of ground-level retail\/restaurant space will activate the building\u2019s Hastings Street frontage.<\/p>\n<p>The total building floor area will reach roughly 141,000 sq. ft., establishing a floor area ratio density of 6.01 \u2014 a floor area size that is more than six times larger than the size of the 23,404 sq. ft. plot of land.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"3475 East Hastings Street Vancouver social housing\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"767\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2260356\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3475-East-Hastings-Street-Vancouver-social-housing-1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2260356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highly preliminary concept of the new social housing tower at 3475 East Hastings St., Vancouver. (TKAD Architecture &amp; Design\/City of Vancouver)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"3475 East Hastings Street Vancouver social housing\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1100\" height=\"760\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2260359\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3475-East-Hastings-Street-Vancouver-social-housing-2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2260359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Highly preliminary concept of the new social housing tower at 3475 East Hastings St., Vancouver. (TKAD Architecture &amp; Design\/City of Vancouver)<\/p>\n<p>One-and-a-half underground levels will accommodate 20 vehicle parking stalls and about 340 secure bike parking spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The site is within the provincial government\u2019s designated Transit-Oriented Area for TransLink\u2019s Kootenay bus loop, which is served by numerous bus routes, including the major services of the R5 Hastings Street RapidBus and the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/r2-marine-willingdon-rapidbus-metrotown-bus-route-translink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">future R2 Marine-Willingdon RapidBus route extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Vancouver is taking a major new step to redevelop the former Ramada Hotel just east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-594165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}