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MAKING HISTORY: Jennifer Crews, centre, with dogs Austin and Echo, is opening the doors to the “Ballet House” for this year’s heritage homes tour. Read the full story on page 5.
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Hotels pitched for historic downtown site Theresa McManus tmcmanus@newwestrecord.ca
A hotel proposal in downtown New Westminster includes an atrium that will bridge the old and the new. The city has received a pre-application review that would see the residential portion of the six-storey, 1912 Arundel Mansion building at 48 Begbie St. converted to a hotel use and the development of
a new six-storey building directly behind it. The two buildings would both be used as hotels. “This building is a time capsule. I don’t know if many of you have actually ever been inside the Arundel Mansions hotel, but every room, every suite, including the elevator through to the toilets and the fixtures, everything in this building is stepping back in time to the 1920s,” architect Robert
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Billard recently told the city’s land use and planning committee. “It is an amazing journey.” Billard said the intent of the project is to preserve the existing building, and the addition of the new six-storey hotel will facilitate that goal. He said an atrium that would be built between the two buildings would provide a transition between the old and the new. “The idea is to be able to of-
fer people who come to the hotel the package of staying in the 1920s or in the modern version of the hotel,” he told the committee. “I’m pleased with the report, I’m pleased that it’s all finally been put down on paper and in writing so the client can fully grasp the steps that they have to go through in order to get this project approved.” The committee endorsed several recommendations in a staff report, such as requiring the appli-
cant to provide a full tenant profile of existing units in Arundel Mansion, and requiring a heritage revitalization agreement and heritage designation bylaw for a formal application. In addition, the applicant would have to provide a detailed business plan on the specifics of the proposed hotel operation and to take a number of actions related to its licensing and taxation. Continued on page 3
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