Burnaby Gets a Hyatt Just in Time for FIFA

Source: Daily Hive

Burnaby is getting a significant addition to its hospitality landscape. The Hyatt Place Vancouver/Metrotown is set to open no later than June 10, 2026, occupying the first 10 floors of the 48-storey Highline Metrotown tower at 4498 Beresford Street, right next to SkyTrain’s Metrotown Station.

The 159-room hotel will offer complimentary WiFi and round-the-clock gym access. Guests will also have access to a self-serve hot breakfast bar (for an additional fee), the “SoBu: The Social Corner” lounge restaurant, and a 24/7 convenience store on-site.
The timing is notable: the hotel is expected to open just ahead of Vancouver’s 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, giving visiting fans a well-located option steps from both Metropolis at Metrotown mall and the Metrotown bus exchange. Bookings are currently available from July 1, 2026.

The hotel’s origin story is an interesting one. The tower’s lower 10 floors, roughly 75,000 sq. ft., were originally designed for office use. When the office market softened, developer Thind Properties successfully applied to the City of Burnaby to convert that space to hotel use instead. Thind subsequently sold the hotel portion to Mundi Hotel Enterprises for over $47 million, a move intended to help manage the developer’s debt load of approximately $100 million tied to this project. The upper floors of the tower contain 327 strata condominium homes.

Mundi, which currently operates 11 hotels across BC including the well-known Coast Lonsdale Quay Hotel in North Vancouver, will grow its portfolio to 13 properties with the additions of this Metrotown location and an anticipated 2027 opening of Hyatt Place Kamloops.

In a related development, the new Homewood Suites by Hilton Surrey recently opened within the top nine floors of the 25-storey City Centre 4 tower at 9686 137 Street in Surrey, near SkyTrain’s King George Station. That 189-suite property was developed by Lark Group in partnership with Aquilini Group and is designed with extended-stay guests in mind.

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