Right on the heels of this rendering release for the new LaGuardia Convention Center, developers have announced that, well, they’re not building a convention center. Times Ledger reports that Fleet Financial Group has significantly scaled back its plans — it will no longer be a convention center, but rather a conference hotel. (The original plans called for 106,000 square feet that included a 25-story hotel, apartments and retail.) As one of the developers told the Ledger, “The reason we scaled down is because we are trying to take more consideration about the existing traffic conditions in the area.” Fleet has not yet finalized the details or design of the hotel, which will be called The Eastern Emerald Hotel. The developers are now doing an environmental cleanup of the site and will then move on through a land use process. Guess we’ve got to say goodbye to those flashy renderings! Plans for Convention… Read More
