The Super 8 Hotel on Douglas Street at Burnside Road has been put up for sale at an asking price of $6.85 million.

Owned by a consortium of Island-based businessmen most notably known for their Country Grocer chain of grocery stores, the high-profile property between Topaz Avenue and Summit Street in the 2900-block of Douglas Street was built as the Ingraham Hotel in 1960. It operated under that banner until 2003 when it was re-branded as a Super 8 Hotel. The Ingraham Hotel’s Ingraham Beer Parlour was at one point the largest beer parlour in British Columbia and a mainstay of Victoria’s entertainment industry.

Together with adjacent Douglas Street properties housing an Accent Inns corporate office and a former West Marine boating supply store, the hotel site was most recently the largest piece of a land consolidation effort between the Super 8 owners and the Scroggs and Farmer families, owners of the two aforementioned lots, for a Canadian Tire store envisioned as a replacement for the retailer’s sole City of Victoria location on Spruce Avenue at Douglas Street. The plan was abandoned following Canadian Tire’s acquisition of the former Target Canada store at Hillside Centre. The two smaller parcels have recently sold to the German Auto Import Group where a new location of the company’s Audi Autohaus auto dealership will be constructed. C

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