The former Red Lion Hotel Vancouver at the Quay could eventually become a bustling public marketplace, in the vein of Seattle’s Pike Place Market or Granville Station in Vancouver, B.C.

But what would it look like here and when would it be built?

People got a chance Tuesday to offer design ideas at an open house, where renderings showed the Port of Vancouver’s latest hopes for its waterfront property, Terminal 1.

Pictures hung at the event space of WareHouse ’23, the restaurant that currently occupies the former hotel building, gauged what styles people preferred — such as whether its signs should lay on the roof or stand straight from the peak.

“In the marketplace, I like the light,” said Don Lamb, 71, a retired Vancouver resident, referring to a concept with more windows on the structure. “And there should be a roof over the deck because this is rainy country here.”

Landscape designs were up for debate, too. Concepts asked people if they preferred a lot of open greenery or more of a reclaimed industrial look.