{"id":37778,"date":"2022-08-08T10:52:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=37778"},"modified":"2022-08-08T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T14:52:47","slug":"queensbury-hotel-expansion-designed-by-phinney-design-group-opens-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/08\/queensbury-hotel-expansion-designed-by-phinney-design-group-opens-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensbury Hotel Expansion, Designed By Phinney Design Group, Opens For Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_37779\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37779\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/queensbury-hotel-ballroom-h.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"727\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/queensbury-hotel-ballroom-h.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/queensbury-hotel-ballroom-h-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2022\/08\/queensbury-hotel-ballroom-h-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37779\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Queensbury Hotel\u2019s new Adirondack Ballroom and renovated event space was officially opened in late July. It more than doubles the capacity for hosting conferences and special events.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By Paul Post<\/p>\n<p>Downtown Glens Falls\u2019 slow, steady resurgence just got a boost with the July 21 grand opening of Queensbury Hotel\u2019s $3.8 million new Adirondack Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>The 5,200-square-foot facility more than doubles the historic hotel\u2019s capacity for hosting conferences and special events, which can further fuel the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re already sold out now on Friday and Saturday nights, almost year round, hosting 300 people that need things to do. They want to go shopping, go to restaurants, events at Wood Theater or Cool Insuring Arena,\u201d said Tyler Herrick, hotel general manager. \u201cBefore the expansion we were hosting 750 events a year. This is just going to help accelerate that by bringing midweek conventions to Glens Falls, which means more business for our property and all of downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ballroom is the latest project in an ongoing makeover of the landmark, 96-year-old hotel, which has helped make it a business incubator by encouraging other small businesses to locate downtown.<\/p>\n<p><b><span class=\"s1\"><span class=\"s2\"><!--more--><\/span><\/span><\/b>\u201cI\u2019m more excited about that than I am for The Queensbury itself because I love this community,\u201d said Ed Moore, who purchased the hotel in March 2016. \u201cI\u2019m so proud of this place. We brought it (the ballroom) home and brought it in on time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is going to be enormous,\u201d said Jim Siplon, EDC Warren County president and CEO. \u201cEvery time the surface area of a place like this expands it has a three to four times multiplier effect in town, at a minimum, whether that\u2019s culinary business, retail, attractions like the Hyde Museum, or so many other things that make this community unique. Every one of them will get a shot in the arm from this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new ballroom can host up to 400 people for plated dinners and dancing for special events. Adjoining hallway space affords capacity for nearly 600 guests for cocktail parties and business-related networking functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saratoga Springs-based Phinney Design Group handled architectural work while V&amp;H Construction Inc. of Fort Edward was the general contractor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time we do an historic building there\u2019s always going to be things that pop up,\u201d said Ed Anker, Phinney\u2019s project manager. \u201cWe ran into a lot of that here. We found a lot of crumbling things and some of the past additions weren\u2019t really done that well. We were very sensitive to match the building\u2019s historic character, which was extremely critical, while also creating a little bit of flair for the new building. I think we nailed it spot-on with detailing, brick, cornices and baseboards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPhinney Design Group was honored to provide Architectural and Interior Design services for the new Adirondack Ballroom project,\u201d said Mike Phinney, owner and principal architect of Phinney Design Group. \u201cWe were careful to modernize the historic hotel, while still honoring its past and marrying the old and the new. After six years of renovations, this project has been one of the largest pieces of a master plan that our design team and owners visualized with the goal of breathing new life into a historic gem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>V&amp;H owner and president Rob Holbrook said his firm\u2019s biggest challenge was staying on schedule while dealing with a shortage of materials and supplies caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, temporary aluminum doors have been installed, leading to the hotel\u2019s rear parking lot, as handsome glass French doors didn\u2019t arrive in time for the grand opening reception, with about 250 well-wishers on hand.<\/p>\n<p>Precise Painting &amp; Wallcovering (Hudson Falls) did all the finishes, Glens Falls Metal Fabricators (Fort Edward) handled heating, ventilation and air conditioning work, while Adirondack P&amp;M (Queensbury) took care of plumbing.<\/p>\n<p>Herrick said the ballroom addition has created 15 new jobs, adding to the hotel\u2019s staff that has grown from 35 to 100 employees since Moore purchased the property.<\/p>\n<p>A multi-year master plan, developed by Phinney Design Group, calls for a roof-top bar that will give hotel guests a view of the surrounding southern Adirondack region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Post Downtown Glens Falls\u2019 slow, steady resurgence just got a boost with the July 21 grand opening of Queensbury Hotel\u2019s $3.8 million new Adirondack Ballroom. The 5,200-square-foot facility more than doubles the historic hotel\u2019s capacity for hosting conferences and special events, which can further fuel the local economy. \u201cWe\u2019re already sold out now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":37779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Queensbury Hotel Expansion, Designed By Phinney Design Group, Opens For Business - Saratoga Business Journal<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2022\/08\/queensbury-hotel-expansion-designed-by-phinney-design-group-opens-for-business\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Queensbury Hotel Expansion, Designed By Phinney Design Group, Opens For Business - Saratoga Business Journal\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Paul Post Downtown Glens Falls\u2019 slow, steady resurgence just got a boost with the July 21 grand opening of Queensbury Hotel\u2019s $3.8 million new Adirondack Ballroom. 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