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Ex. AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES-055 Order Primary source read

Minutes of the Board of Directors meeting of April 22, 2020

No events since March 10, 2020 and none scheduled through June; contracts with OGS for use of the Center as an emergency warehouse and temporary medical station and with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Phases 2 and 3 of the medical station; $33 million of cancelled events

Board of Directors of the New York Convention Center Operating Corporation · New York Convention Center Operating Corporation (Javits Center), New York (State)

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Jurisdiction
New York Convention Center Operating Corporation (Javits Center), New York · New York
Level
State
Authority
N.Y. Pub. Auth. Law §§ 2560-2571
Issued
2020-04-22 Apr. 22, 2020
Effective
2020-03-10 (last events); medical station from Mar. 30, 2020 (read as 2020-03-10)
End
Medical station closed May 1, 2020; no events resumed until 2021 (read as 2020-05-01)
In force
Mar. 10, 2020 to May 1, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q1
Limitation types
Business closureHealth care ordersEvents and venues
Addressees
  • the Corporation; show organizers, exhibitors, contractors, unions
Functions reached
  • MC
  • EV trade shows (New York International Auto Show among the cancellations)
  • LG Manhattan hotel demand
  • SC decorators, exhibit builders, union labor
  • WF
  • JS construction (expansion project)
Collection
Local districts and authorities AGY-LOCAL-DISTRICTS-AUTHORITIES

Operative words

There have been no events since March 10th and there are no events scheduled through the end of June. The Javits Center has successfully signed the following contracts: two agreements with OGS for use of the Javits Center as a temporary emergency warehouse and as a temporary medical station; and one with the US Army Corps of Engineering for Phases 2 and 3 buildout of the medical station.... McManus reported that canceled events related to coronavirus for Fiscal Year 2020 and Fiscal Year 2021 amounted to a $33 [million loss]

Enforcement

Corporate contracts with the State Office of General Services and the Army Corps; State emergency orders

Notes

The Corporation's own record of the closure and conversion of the largest convention center in the Northeast.