Hotel at HSC remains in plans: Canad Inns
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DESPITE lengthy delays, Canad Inns says it still plans to proceed with construction of a new highrise hotel on the Health Sciences Centre campus.
"I wish we could have got it done more quickly, but we are proceeding," Taras Sokolyk, Canad Inns’ chief executive officer, said Thursday.
Asked how soon construction might begin, Sokolyk said, "I don’t want to put a date on it… but it will be as quickly as we can."
He said he met HSC and Winnipeg Regional Health Authority officials Thursday morning to discuss the project, and there is still a number of issues needing to be resolved.
He said the company is confident financing won’t be a problem, "but not overly confident because it’s a new world out there" in the wake of last year’s global recession and financial-market meltdown.
In an interview in March of last year, Canad Inns’ president and chairman Leo Ledohowski said financing was in place and that the Winnipeg-based hotel chain hoped to begin construction in June of last year and complete the project by June of this year. But that didn’t happen.
Sokolyk said there isn’t one single issue that has caused the delay.
"It’s a series of issues," he said, including a few zoning issues.
He described it as "a very complex project," with two or three partners who have to be consulted. That includes the HSC, which will get a share of the hotel’s profits.
The plan outlined last year by Ledohowski called for construction of a $30-million-plus, 191-room, 18-storey hotel on the HSC campus next door to the new Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine on William Avenue.
It’s expected to be the first hotel in Canada to be built on a hospital campus, and is envisioned as a place where HSC patients, their families and visiting health-care officials can stay.
murray.mcneill@freepress.mb.ca