Article: Urban-type hotel design gets city's nod

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Those large covered driveways typical to suburban hotels won't be part of Vancouver's downtown hotel and conference center. Instead, an urban-style design, with glass canopies, a two-story lobby and a grand staircase, has been selected for the $68.6 million project. The Vancouver Downtown Redevelopment Authority board of directors voted unanimously Friday night to select FaulknerUSA of Austin, Texas, as general contractor. The decision, reached after a six-hour meeting that included presentations from three different contractor-architect teams, pushes Vancouver' s project one big step closer to reality. The city hopes to sell bonds in June and have ...

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