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Missing the show boat: the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center isn't large enough to host the...

By Trager, Cara
Publication: Crain's New York Business
Date: Monday, November 17 1997

Jeff Little has a money-losing space problem.

As president of George Little Management Inc., a White Plains-based trade show organization, he reluctantly turned away about 2,000 potential exhibitors from August's New York International Gift Fair. He didn't have enough space to accommodate them.

"We are probably losing several million dollars a show by not having enough space," says Mr. Little, whose show blanketed not only 465,000 square feet of usable exhibition space at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center but also spilled over to Passenger Ship Pier 92 on the

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