NEW YORK CITY—Continuing his focus on infrastructure here, Governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly has proposed a large, $1 billion expansion of the Jacob Javits Convention Center. The new plan has the bursting-at-the-seems meeting facility growing by 1.2 million square feet to offer a total 3.3 million square feet of meeting and convention space.
If approved, the expansion will boost Javits' meeting room space five-fold and will include the largest ballroom in the Northeast. The expansion also calls for a new, four-level, 480,000 square foot truck garage capable of housing hundreds of tractor-trailers at one time while improving pedestrian safety and local traffic flow. Construction would start this year.
The plan also entails making the building more environmentally friendly by installing solar power and the nation's largest green roof.
Governor Cuomo made headlines Wednesday with another infrastructure expansion announcement. He has proposed a $3 billion project to overhaul and expand Penn Station.
"The Governor's expansion of the Javits Convention Center is an exciting and ambitious project that will greatly benefit New York's economy," says Gary La Barbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. "By adding more than a million square feet of space and increasing Javits' competitiveness as a world-class convention center, this plan will bring more shows and visitors to New York while creating thousands of construction jobs and stimulating the economy decades into the future."
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Rayna Katz
Rayna Katz is a seasoned business journalist whose extensive experience includes coverage of the lodging sector, travel and the culinary space. She was most recently content director for a business-to-business publisher, overseeing four publications. While at Meeting News, a travel trade publication, she received a Best Reporting award for a story on meeting cancellations in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
