New York's New Edge by David Halle Elisabeth Tiso

Author:David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso [David Halle, Elisabeth Tiso]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology, Urban, Art, Architecture
ISBN: 9780226032542
Google: O99XBQAAQBAJ
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Goodreads: 18526702
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-09T00:00:00+00:00

Moving to Queens: The Casino Proposal?

In a bombshell announcement at his January 5, 2012, State of the State Address, governor Andrew Cuomo revealed a plan for the state to partner with the Malaysian private company Genting, which already operated a casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in southeast Queens, to build the largest convention center in the country (3.8 million square feet), centered around the casino. Genting would spend $4 billion to build the complex, including hotels, while the state would provide the land and build the access infrastructure (roads, etc.). After the new convention center was built, Javits would be closed and the land sold for development.

This project was saddled from the start with a central blocking factor: squabbling politicians. Incredibly, Cuomo announced his plan without consultation with Mayor Bloomberg or any of the Javits Convention Center directors or exhibitors. Cuomo and Bloomberg were anyway barely on speaking terms for various reasons, including that, a few months earlier, Cuomo had balanced the state budget by reducing education money scheduled for the city. When Bloomberg’s deputy mayor Patricia Harris complained about one of these transactions, a Cuomo aide told her to “go fuck herself.” Predictably, by February 2012 Jeff Little, a Javits trade show veteran, and a coalition of Manhattan hotel operators were vehemently criticizing Cuomo’s plan to close Javits, arguing that convention attendees want to be in vibrant Manhattan, not bland Queens (Bagli 2012). Within months the plan collapsed as Genting made demands that could not easily be met, raising the question of whether the company was an unreasonably difficult partner.

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