NEW YORK CITY—Continuing his focus on infrastructure here,Governor Andrew Cuomo reportedly has proposed alarge, $1 billion expansion of the Jacob Javits ConventionCenter. The new plan has the bursting-at-the-seems meetingfacility growing by 1.2 million square feet to offer a total 3.3million square feet of meeting and convention space.
If approved, the expansion will boost Javits' meeting room spacefive-fold and will include the largest ballroom in the Northeast.The expansion also calls for a new, four-level, 480,000 square foottruck garage capable of housing hundreds of tractor-trailers at onetime while improving pedestrian safety and local traffic flow.Construction would start this year.
The plan also entails making the building more environmentallyfriendly by installing solar power and the nation's largest greenroof.
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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.
