Vaughan’s got a new hotel.
The
aspirationally urban suburb, which is getting its own subway stop soon and is constructing a new downtown core to welcome it, is now home to Canada’s first
Element hotel, a contemporary take on an extended-stay hotel that up to now has been built in business centres such as Miami, Las Vegas, and Houston. Part of the
Starwood group of hotels, Element features big windows, bikes to borrow and electric car charging stations.
The seven-storey, 152-suite hotel, built by the
Zen Group of Companies that owns the business park on which it sits, has applied for LEED silver status.
Construction began in April, 2012 at the intersection of Highways 7 and 27 in southwest Vaughan. According to its general manager, John Caneco, it’s 10 minutes from the airport and 10 minutes to Vaughan’s new downtown.
According to Vaughan’s municipal website, the city has more than doubled in size over the past 20 years, growing in population from 111,359 in 1991 to 288,301 in 2011, and the city’s expecting that there will be 780,000 Vaughan-based jobs by 2031.
The hotel was designed by Burlington-based
Chamberlain Architects, Constructors, Managers.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: John Caneco