Bosa Properties has taken over a hotel project in Vancouver’s Broadway neighborhood and is proposing a unique hotel-office split in a pair of conjoined towers.
Design review documents submitted to the city and made public Wednesday said Bosa acquired the site from Centennial Hotel Ltd., which had planned a pair of angular towers rising from a single podium for the site at 888 W. Broadway, near Vancouver General Hospital.
In its submission, Vancouver-based Bosa proposed updating the earlier application, which had already been approved, by keeping the two-tower format but with changes including shortening the planned 11- and 13-floor towers to 10 floors as well as converting one of the towers to office space.
A spokesperson for Bosa Properties did not immediately return a call from CoStar News requesting comment Thursday.
Bosa Properties is a separate company from Bosa Development, another Canadian firm, although the founders are related.
In the new plans, which were submitted by Vancouver's Henriquez Partners Architects, the pair of towers take on a more squared-off shape, replacing the off-plumb exterior walls with straight sides and setting only the smaller of the two aside for hospitality uses, on top of a three-storey podium topped by a pool.
In total, the hotel portion of the project is now planned for 156 keys, while the office tower is planned to encompass 149,000 square feet.
The site is currently zoned for low-rise retail, but after a major rezone earlier this year, it sits amid the larger Broadway Corridor area that has drawn substantial developer interest.