City Picks Port's Proposal for Hotel, Conference Center Project

VANCOUVER, WA-Plans are firming up for a new hotel and conference center in Downtown Vancouver.

The City of Vancouver this week chose the Port of Vancouver’s proposal to replace the 150-room Inn at the Quay on the Columbia River with a 300- to 350-room hotel and build the convention center on the other side of the railroad tracks in the Esther Short Park area of Downtown Vancouver, as previously planned.

The city’s public facilities district would develop the convention center at 6th and Columbia and operate it as well. The 60,000-sf to 80,000-sf convention center would cost around $20 million to develop and include between 30,000 sf and 40,000 sf of meeting space. The main hall would seat 1,100.