A former tourist hotel-turned-social housing building on Vancouver’s Granville Entertainment District, long the subject of complaints from nearby businesses, will be closed by next June, tenants learned this week.

On Thursday, notices from B.C. Housing were posted on the doors of the rooms of the Luugat, the former Howard Johnson Hotel at 1176 Granville Street that was purchased by the province in June 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and converted into social housing.

The notices informed tenants that the building “will need to close by the end of June 2026.”

B.C. Housing will work with Community Builders Group, the non-profit that manages the Luugat, to ensure residents are moved to appropriate homes, the notice says, adding that “all residents will be offered a comparable housing be

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