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$1 BILLION EXPANSION PLANNED FOR JACOB JAVITS CENTER
Cuomo said construction would start this year at the Jacob K. Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side. Plans call for adding 344,000 square-feet of meeting and exhibition space, 400,000 square-feet of operational space and 479,000 square-feet for delivery truck parking.
New York really hopes to get some additional convention and trade show business with this -- bigger shows, more shows, and even the possibility of different simultaneous trade shows.
But the real problem is not the Javits space itself. It's the high cost of hotel rooms in the city. Hotels are are substantially cheaper in Orlando, Chicago, Las Vegas, and the like and thus their booming convention/trade show business. When typical Midtown hotel rates are $350-$400 a night, a lot of groups that might like to be in NYC will decide to go elsewhere no matter how pretty the Javits Center ends up being.
But the real problem is not the Javits space itself. It's the high cost of hotel rooms in the city. Hotels are are substantially cheaper in Orlando, Chicago, Las Vegas, and the like and thus their booming convention/trade show business. When typical Midtown hotel rates are $350-$400 a night, a lot of groups that might like to be in NYC will decide to go elsewhere no matter how pretty the Javits Center ends up being.
People on expense accounts care less. The budget folks tend to stay in NJ hotels which is far cheaper.
What happened to the idea of selling off the Javits land and moving the convention center to Sunnyside Queens?
It was a daft idea then and died a sensible death. Persons coming to NYC for a meeting or convention by and large want to be in Manhattan or very close to it.
Besides that proposal was before the High Line, Far West Side, Hudson River Yards and general boom of what was once a desolate part of Manhattan. Between all that I just mentioned and the expansion of #7 rail service to the area things have changed greatly.
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