According to plans, there will be five new conference rooms on the hotel's third floor, the largest suitable for 150 people, the smallest for 40 people. The second and fourth floors of the hotel are already dedicated to meeting and convention space. Manhattan Center has two floors of meeting space, including the newly renovated Hammerstein Ballroom and a sound and video stage.
"Hotel meeting space large enough to accommodate major conventions is very much in demand here," says Mann. "A number of hotels sacrificed meeting space for additional rooms throughout the '90s, creating a shortage of convention space in hotels. We chose not to do that."
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John Salustri
John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
