Will be good to get some new blood on Vic City council. Send Elvira Gultch and her flying monkeys packing.

Don’t forget Chard/UVic and the 135-room Hyatt, the near doubling of room capacity at an expanded Sandman Hotel on Douglas at Hillside, and the proposal to bring a hotel to the BC Power Commission Building opposite the Marriott.

I’ve put some details together here, coincidentally: https://victoria.citified.ca/news/holiday-inn-hotel-complex-proposed-elk-lake-drives-former-howard-johnson-property/

Good point, I forgot about Chard/UVic and Reliance! If all of these go through we might actually regain the 1000 hotel rooms lost. Lets hope the new council does something to reverse some of the bad decisions made over the last 8 years with regard to 24/7 camping, non enforcement of criminal laws, abandoning our downtown business's etc., so we actually get some tourists to occupy these new rooms.

It'll help, for sure, but it'll be a slow trickle over many years.

Imagine, that 30 years ago this city had way, way more hotel inventory than it does today. Gorge Road was littered with them, as was Douglas all the way to Saanich Road. James Bay lost three hotels over a short period of time (Queen Vic, Harbour Towers and Admirals Inn).

Upper downtown Douglas Street lost four (Paul's, City Centre, and the two at Princess).