In November 2025, we received news that our landlords, Nicola Wealth Real Estate and Lotus Capital Corp, had applied to rezone and demolish our home, Myron Manor, at 75 E 8th Ave. If approved, our homes would be converted into a 21-storey extended-stay hotel. The rezoning application states, this hotel is meant to provide short-term housing for employees working at Vancouver’s “booming high-tech and biotech firms.”

This proposal threatens to destroy the homes of approximately 40 residents, including seniors, people with disabilities, an Indigenous elder, immigrants from all over the world, and young families. Close to a third of the tenants are Filipino, currently living within walking distance from St Patrick’s church and the proposed site of the Filipino Cultural Centre.

Basahin ang Tagalog na salin ng pahinang ito dito.

The proposed hotel will include “apartment-style living,” yet we will not be entitled to move back into the new building. Some of us have lived here for decades. Some of us our entire lives. Many of us would likely have to leave the city, and some the Lower Mainland or the province entirely. 

We, the tenants of 75 East 8th Ave, have formed the Myron Manor Collective in order to fight to stay. 

The destruction of homes like ours is touted as a solution to a fabricated “hotel room supply crisis” in Vancouver. Leading up to the hosting of FIFA this summer, the British Columbia Hotel Association’s president and CEO noted that, “we are ready to welcome the world, and we have the hotel availability to do so”.  

The Broadway Plan is being used to push through a hotel for tech workers to generate wealth for the ultra rich at the expense of our homes. Nicola Wealth is focused on providing “wealth management and asset management services to affluent individuals, families, and institutions across Canada.” They require a minimum of $1 million in investable assets to invest with them. 

The conversion of our home at Myron Manor into a hotel will only aggravate the affordability crisis, evicting our community and destroying our neighbourhood in the process. 

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