Hotel Georgia (Vancouver)

This is the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, a 12-story historic hotel at 801 West Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia.

It first opened on May 7, 1927, built for $1.5 million with architects Robert T. Garrow and John Graham Sr. Just a few years later, on January 31, 1931, it became the first international property for Seattle-based Western Hotels and remained with that chain, later called Western International Hotels, until August 1, 1972.

In 1998, Allied Hotel Properties Inc. bought the Hotel Georgia for $45 million. They then spent another $10 million on renovations and reopened it in June 1998 as the Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia. Allied had plans to build a 50-story residential tower on the adjacent parking lot, but then sold the hotel in 2005 for $65 million to Seattle-based Goodman Real Estate Inc. and the Delta Group. The new owners then revised the tower plans.

The Crowne Plaza Hotel Georgia closed in early 2007 for restoration work and the construction of that tower. In 2010, the Delta Group announced that Rosewood Hotels & Resorts would manage the hotel. It reopened on July 10, 2011, as the Rosewood Hotel Georgia. The rooms were gutted and combined, reducing the number from 320 to 155. The hotel's restoration cost $120 million, and the adjacent 48-story glass condominium tower, the Private Residences at the Hotel Georgia, cost an additional $400 million to build. In 2017, Pacific Reach bought the hotel for $145 million.

More recently, the hotel closed for renovations on January 1, 2024, and reopened on July 3, 2024. These renovations included the lobby, the 1927 Lobby Lounge, the Reflections Terrace, the front desk, and all the rooms and suites. The basement, which has historically housed beer halls, cocktail bars, and nightclubs, was also redeveloped and opened as Prophecy, a cocktail lounge, in 2024.

The Private Residences at Hotel Georgia is a 48-story residential building, 158.5 meters high, constructed on the hotel's former parking structure. It's the third tallest tower in the city, after the Living Shangri-La Tower and the Paradox Hotel and Tower. All three of these developments are new mixed-use hotel/residence towers on Georgia Street.