863-ft-tall Burnaby tower features hotel, sky-high restaurant and bar on 86th floor | Daily Hive

Burnaby's future 863-ft-tall tower in Lougheed to feature a hotel with a sky-high restaurant and bar destination on the 86th floor

2026 revised concept of the first phase of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

Some of Metro Vancouver’s future tallest towers could grow even higher, with a two-tower project in a traditionally suburban area of the region now seeing additional residential uses and a sizeable hotel, including a destination public restaurant on the rooftop of the project’s tallest tower.

Local developer Pinnacle International has revised the concept for the first phase of its Pinnacle Lougheed complex — located at 3900 Grand Promenade, 9850 Austin Rd., and 9858-9898 Gatineau Pl., immediately adjacent to SkyTrain’s Lougheed Town Centre Station and bus exchange.

The rezoning application was initially approved by Burnaby City Council in Fall 2024. However, the developer is now returning to the municipal government with revisions in response to the sustained weakness in the office space market.

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Under the revisions, the overall height of both towers in this first phase will increase slightly, growing from 850 ft. with 80 storeys to 863 ft. with 87 storeys for Tower 1B — which would be Western Canada’s tallest building if it existed today — and from 782 ft. with 73 storeys to 797 ft. with 77 storeys for Tower 1A. This increase in floors with minimal height gain is largely due to the removal of most office uses in the base podium, as office levels require greater ceiling heights than residential ones.

Instead of a 13-storey base podium primarily dedicated to office space, the updated design reduces the shared podium to five storeys and shifts toward a mix of residential and hotel uses for this lower portion of the towers.

The development will include a 121,000-sq.-ft. hotel with 171 traditional short-stay guest rooms, located within the base podium and levels six and seven of Tower 1B. Other hotel uses within the base podium include a restaurant, bar, conference facilities, a ballroom, and a handful of meeting rooms.

pinnacle lougheed tower burnaby revised hotel restaurant april 2026

2026 revised concept of the first phase of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

Additionally, Tower 1B’s top two floors — levels 86 and 87 — will be entirely dedicated to hotel uses.

Level 86, at a structural height of 838 ft., will feature a destination public restaurant, bar, and lounge occupying roughly half of the 11,000-sq.-ft. floor plate. This space will include an open dining room, a wine tasting room, and several private dining rooms. Guests will access the restaurant via a dedicated express elevator from the hotel lobby or via two hotel elevators that reach all the way to this upper hotel floor.

At a geodetic height of 1,007 ft. — combining structural height and land elevation — the restaurant will offer panoramic views across much of the Lower Mainland.

Aside from the restaurant, the remainder of level 86 will provide shared amenities for hotel guests, including lounges, meeting rooms, a library, and private dining areas.

On Tower 1B’s highest floor, level 87 will feature additional hotel amenities such as an indoor swimming pool, hot tub, cold plunge, spa, fitness gym, mini golf room, and a theatre/media room. It will also house building mechanical systems, including a tuned mass damper — a giant counterweight found in some taller towers around the world, used to reduce building motion, typically made of concrete, steel, or water. For example, the tall and slim One Wall Centre tower in Downtown Vancouver has a pair of 227,300-litre water tanks at the top of the building to serve this excess movement damper purpose.

Floor plan for the 86th level with the hotel restaurant, bar, and lounge destination:

Tower 1B’s 86th level with hotel restaurant, bar, and lounge destination; 2026 revised concept of the first phase of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

Floor plan for the 87th level, the top of the tower, with the hotel guest amenity spaces and the tuned mass damper:

Tower 1B’s 87th level with hotel guest amenity spaces; 2026 revised concept of the first phase of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

2026 revised concept of the first phase of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

The hotel will be named “Pinnacle Hotel,” a part of the developer’s local chain of hotels under the same name. Pinnacle International brings considerable hospitality experience, with existing properties such as the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, Pinnacle Vancouver Harbourfront Hotel, Pinnacle Hotel at the Pier, and Pinnacle Hotel Whistler Village, as well as upcoming developments including Le Meridien Richmond Pinnacle and Element by Westin Richmond near SkyTrain’s Capstan Station.

The remaining base podium space will include indoor amenities for residents and additional strata market ownership condominium units. The rooftop of the podium will serve as an outdoor amenity space for residents, featuring a swimming pool, children’s pool, hot tub, basketball court, and pickleball court.

In total, the two-development will include nearly 14,000 sq. ft. of retail/restaurant space and about 10,000 sq. ft. of office space — a reduction of approximately 69,000 sq. ft. of office space compared to the previous design. Residential units will increase by 70, bringing the total to 1,828 strata market ownership condominium homes.

The total building floor area in the first phase will reach 1.865 million sq. ft., with a floor area ratio (FAR) of 10.61 — meaning the two towers and the shared base podium will have a combined useable floor area that is more than 10 times larger than the size of the plot of land.

Pinnacle Lougheed site next to SkyTrain’s Lougheed Town Centre Station. (Google Maps)

The three phases of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

Upon the full buildout of all three phases, Pinnacle Lougheed will include four towers. The remaining two towers will be shorter and are still under consideration. Tower 2 (716 ft. with 66 storeys) in the second phase will include 625 strata market ownership condominium homes, 172,000 sq. ft. of office space, and a 125,000-sq.-ft. hotel. Tower 3 (571 ft. with 56 storeys) will contain 518 secured purpose-built market rental homes. The entire complex will total over 3.37 million sq. ft.

Eight underground levels will provide over 2,100 parking stalls and more than 6,000 secured bike spaces.

The scope and calibre of uses within Pinnacle Lougheed likely builds on the expected future synergies from Shape Properties’ continued long-term redevelopment of the adjacent 37-acre Lougheed Town Centre mall into the new City of Lougheed district of high-density residential uses and significant new retail/restaurant uses, including a covered outdoor mall immediately north of the Pinnacle site.

The revised plan also changes the creation of inclusionary rental housing. Instead of distributing units across all phases, the developer will provide 300 below-market rental units tied to Pinnacle Lougheed’s first phase, located at a nearby separate site on Carrigan Court — just to the west along Lougheed Highway. The remaining 105 units from the original 405-unit requirement will be converted into market rentals.

Previous 2022 concept of Pinnacle Lougheed’s first phase with a 13-storey base podium with office space:

9850 Austin Road 9858-9898 Gatineau Place Burnaby Pinnacle Lougheed 2022

Previous 2022 concept artistic rendering of Pinnacle Lougheed at 9850 Austin Road and 9858-9898 Gatineau Place, Burnaby, with the first phase highlighted. (JYOM Architecture/Pinnacle International Development)

2026 revised concept of Pinnacle Lougheed’s first phase with a five-storey podium containing hotel uses:

2026 revised concept Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

2026 revised concept of the first phase of Pinnacle Lougheed, Burnaby. (Jyom Architecture/Pinnacle International)

Jyom Architecture is the lead design firm for Pinnacle Lougheed. The firm is also collaborating with Pinnacle International on a revised proposal for the development at 650 Beach Crescent, located near the north end of the Granville Street Bridge in Downtown Vancouver. The project envisions a 650-ft.-tall tower featuring strata condominiums, a large hotel, and a similar destination public restaurant on the rooftop, overlooking the city. If this tower existed today, it would be the second tallest building within the city of Vancouver only — considerably shorter than taller buildings proposed, planned, or already under construction elsewhere in the city and region.

Just east of Metropolis at Metrotown mall in Burnaby, for the site of 5000 Kingsway, WPJ McCarthy and Company is proposing to build an 853-ft.-tall tower with retail/restaurant, residential, and office uses, as well as a First Nations art gallery, a bowling alley, and a public observation deck attraction on the tower rooftop.

However, an even larger and taller proposal exists for the redevelopment of the Bay parkade at 501-595 West Georgia St. in downtown Vancouver. Holborn Group is planning to build two mixed-use residential and commercial towers reaching 889 ft. with 79 storeys and 783 ft. with 68 storeys. A third tower would become Western Canada’s tallest building and its first “supertall,” rising to 1,034 ft. with 68 storeys. This supertall tower would be dedicated entirely to hotel use, featuring 920 guest rooms, extensive conference and meeting spaces, and a unique public observation deck and restaurant contained within a large dome-shaped structure atop the building at a height exceeding 1,000 ft. Vancouver City Council is expected to consider the Bay parkade’s rezoning application later this spring or summer.

Later this year, Metro Vancouver is expected to gain a new tallest building from the continued construction ascent of Concord Pacific’s 755-ft.-tall Grand Tower at Concord Metrotown. This tower, reaching full completion in 2027, will exceed the height of the region’s current tallest building of the 2023-built, 708-ft.-tall Two Gilmore Place tower by Onni Group at Burnaby’s Brentwood district.

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