Manhattan’s Uninspired Meeting Scene Is Good News for Brooklyn
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Although Manhattan continues to market successfully to meeting planners by promoting the city's iconic selling points, the most exciting spirit of innovation to create memorable events is in Brooklyn.
New York City was ranked #7 in Cvent’s Top 50 USA Meetings Destinations 2015, based almost entirely on the hotel, convention, and logistics infrastructure in Manhattan.
For many national and international meeting planners, Manhattan is New York. Manhattan is where all the stuff is, including the I.M. Pei-designed Javits Convention Center, some of the country's most iconic hotels, and America’s best dining and entertainment scene.
The borough basically sells itself as the most cosmopolitan city in the U.S., unless you’re a meeting planner looking for new and innovative meeting space for 500 or more attendees.
A decade ago this wasn’t really a concern. There wasn’t a lot of demand for edgy event venues before the sharp rise in recent years of tech startup and co-working culture, millennial-influenced meeting design, adaptive urban redevelopment, and mixed-use “innovation districts.”
Just 10 years ago, attendees were more compliant with the idea of gathering
