The owners of the hotel should be doing what they want with their hotel. All the hotels 'up the street' do what they want. Was Trump Tower supposed to allot several floors to low cost housing? What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Vancouver has seen all of its neighbourhoods 'gentrified' and nobody stopped the owners. Affordable housing is a huge problem for many, many Vancouverites, not just the residents of this 'tear down'  property.