Truman has updated their webstie and confirmed the brand. Moxy.
Cool! I actually just stayed at a Moxy hotel in Paris a while back. First time I had heard of them, and found out that they are also under the Marriott umbrella, on the more affordable side. A good fit for East Village IMO.
 
Cool! I actually just stayed at a Moxy hotel in Paris a while back. First time I had heard of them, and found out that they are also under the Marriott umbrella, on the more affordable side. A good fit for East Village IMO.
Very similar to Germain and Alt, which is also the same company
 
Kind of crazy the number of Marriotts we'll have in the city. There's currently 24, with the 3 by BMO Centre and this one, that's 28. Edmonton has 18.
I didn’t know we had so many Marriotts in either city! Calgary has been on tear as far as downtown hotels go.
This would be what…the 12th hotel built downtown (including Fairmont and the two Stampede Station hotels) in the past decade?
 
I feel like I am taking crazy pills and this location should be where the new Fairmont goes, and its rumored location is where a new more affordable hotel would go.
Anyway, cool to see this take off
Can't build any height at all at this site.
 
I feel like I am taking crazy pills and this location should be where the new Fairmont goes, and its rumored location is where a new more affordable hotel would go.
Anyway, cool to see this take off
Expensive hotels like Fairmont is mostly supported by corporate or rich people spend. This location is too far from the downtown offices and the East Village isn't a wealthy neighborhood either. Like in Toronto, where Park Hyatt and Four Seasons are in Yorkville, and in Montreal, Sofitel/Ritz/Four Seasons are in the Golden Square Mile. We don't really have that kind of wealthy retail area.
 
East Village isn't a wealthy neighborhood either.
It is a lifestyle neighbourhood, though. People who live there who want a new build, on the river and close to urban parks, and walkable to downtown (whether that's for work or for nightlife/restaurants).

if not for the street people/drop in centre, I think it would definitely feel more luxurious than 11/12 Ave in Beltline.
 
And they still say we're well behind in hotel room capacity in the inner city. Wild
Tourism has grown rapidly in the past decade. Alberta receives around $3.5 billion a year from overseas and transborder tourists, and about $3 billion of that is in the Calgary Banff area.
I don’t have figures for out of province tourists, but I know it’s been on the increase as well.
 
I don't have any numbers for this, but I suspect that all of these overseas direct flights as well as non-stop in North America have helped increase hotel usage for the downtown area. Those types of tourists have money and many are staying in downtown hotels.
 
It is a lifestyle neighbourhood, though. People who live there who want a new build, on the river and close to urban parks, and walkable to downtown (whether that's for work or for nightlife/restaurants).

if not for the street people/drop in centre, I think it would definitely feel more luxurious than 11/12 Ave in Beltline.
Right. Sorry I didn't mean it as a slight to the East Village. It was mainly a response to why the Fairmont wouldn't really work here but a Moxy does, which is the same as the vibe you described.
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Tourism has grown rapidly in the past decade. Alberta receives around $3.5 billion a year from overseas and transborder tourists, and about $3 billion of that is in the Calgary Banff area.
I don’t have figures for out of province tourists, but I know it’s been on the increase as well.
It's also not a Calgary only phenomenon. This helps put our level of hotel development in perspective.

 

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