The Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, located at 11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets, was supposed to expand to become one of the largest convention centers in the country. This plan, however, was found to be "prohibitively expensive" by the now former Empire State Development Corporation Co-Chairman Patrick J. Foye, and by November 2007 the plan had been scaled down. Now the focus has turned to renovating the convention center instead, which will still end up costing the city about $800 million, compared to about $3.1 billion for the original plan. Read the full article at the original source (Gotham Gazette)…

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