As a New Yorker, promoting the amazing renaissance of the new downtown Manhattan is personal. I remember volunteering for the third anniversary of September 11 and standing in the pit of the cleaned-up site with my friend Michael Cerbelli. We watched as children placed flowers in a pool, created to honor the parents that these children had never really known. Being in the event industry during that time was life-changing. The community really stepped up and worked together to help bring back the city.
In February, BizBash will publish a special supplement to our annual venue and supplier directory, the BizBash Best, that will focus specifically on downtown Manhattan. It will highlight venues, from the iconic to the brand new, that represent new opportunities for event organizers in what I call the “world’s new town square.”
Choosing the location for an event is a statement all its own. Choosing the new downtown Manhattan not only makes a statement, it also turns a live gathering into a transformational experience. Now the facilities live up to the dream.
Whether an event takes place at the architecturally exciting Oculus, the elegant new luxury hotels, conference, and exclusive event venues and restaurants, or the cultural facilities, a participant of an event in the new downtown will feel the connection and remember the experience forever.
Our job is to stimulate organizers from around the globe with the idea that bringing their meeting or event to the new downtown will be one of the highlights of the gathering for their guests and will improve the R.O.I. of the entire experience.
As a result, we at BizBash are launching a passion project. We are creating a groundbreaking campaign to help meeting and event planners all over the world discover what those who live and work here have known all along: that downtown New York City is more than just another neighborhood. It is a global business and cultural crossroads.
With more than 50 new and retooled venues, hotels, and event industry services below 14th Street, downtown New York puts a wealth of resources at the fingertips of corporations, enterprises, nonprofits, and associations.
This unprecedented campaign will highlight those resources with a digital and print magazine, a digital directory, and media outreach. It will promote the bevy of gathering spots for live events that can accommodate everything from meetings, to festivals, to conferences, and the dedicated service professionals who help facilitate those goals.
Lower Manhattan had much to overcome, rising from literal and figurative ashes to become the hub of event-driven collaboration and innovation it is today. Now is the city’s time to shine.
To learn more about this incredible new program, visit bizbash.com/bizbashbest now.
