While we do not support anything like the originally proposed large-scale continuous commercial development, we believe that there is a place along the river for singular public buildings that could be built with environmentally innovative methods and would provide a foreground to the dense urban mass of the island.

Our proposal is to float an expansion of the Javits Center in the river on a pontoon raft. The new structure, connected to the existing building by dramatic gangways bridging the West Side Highway, will be ringed by a public walkway and bordered by a park to the south. This new building will add 500,000 SF of space, making it one of the largest convention centers in the country.