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And that venue comes with a bonus!
Trump acquired the option to develop the site early in his career as a real estate developer, and he spent years trying to get the city to build a convention center at his location on West 34th Street. āThere wouldnāt be a new convention center in New York today if it hadnāt been for the Trumps,ā he wrote in his first book, The Art of the Deal, Trump even lobbied the city to name the building named after his family, offering to waive his $833,000 fee if they slapped the āTrumpā name on the center.
But when the city chose a different developer for the project, Trump turned on it. In his book, he held the ensuing project responsible for āperhaps the most horrendous construction delays and cost overruns in the history of the building businessā:
The entire story is great: motherjones.com