A sizeable new hotel project is proposed for a prominent location immediately next to the south end of the Granville Street Bridge, and near the entrance into Granville Island. …Based on the City’s summary of the preliminary project details of the rezoning application, this would be an 18-storey, mass-timber, mixed-use hotel tower. At a height of 175 ft, this tower would slightly exceed the University of British Columbia’s 174-ft-tall Brock Commons Tallwood House student residence building, which was previously the tallest mass-timber building in the world when it was completed in 2017. According to Arno Matis Architecture & Urbanism, this would be North America’s tallest mass-timber hotel building. There would be a total of 168 guest rooms and a total building floor area of over 91,000 sq. ft.