Fashion shows will stay in NYC's Bryant Park for now

==Bryant Park will be rolling out the welcome mat at least one more time for the fashion industry after Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped in.==
: Source: by Catherine Tymkiw October 12, 2006 
Bryant Park will be rolling out the welcome mat at least one more time for the fashion industry after Mayor Michael Bloomberg stepped in to reserve the venue for the massive 7th on Sixth February show.
After months of wrangling between Bryant Park Corp., which manages the venue, and IMG, which owns the fall and spring shows, Mr. Bloomberg acknowledged that “Fashion Week has outgrown the facilities,” but said more time is needed to find a new home.
7th on Sixth has grown to nearly 87,000 square feet from about 10,000 square feet when the shows first started 13 years ago. BPC has lobbied for the shows to move, saying they’ve outgrown the five-and-a-half-acre park.
“We have determined that the search for a suitable home will require further analysis and planning [and] The city will continue to work with IMG and the fashion industry to locate a permanent home for Fashion Week,” said the mayor in a statement.
IMG is said to have been looking at five or six other locations, including Lincoln Center.
Fern Mallis, vice president of IMG Fashion, said in a statement that the organization "fully embrace[s] the search for a long-term solution."
==Insights==
===Adam Honigman, Park Volunteer who doesn't make a cent off of the show, posted===
Before any takes any cheap shots at the Bryant Park Corporation, Mayor Bloomberg, Dan Biderman, who has shown his real stipes as a parkie, or the NYC Economic Development Corporation, we should realize that the massive 7th Ave on Sixth February show generates millions of dollars - everyone from the garmento's, mannequins, patternmakers, garment workers, rack guys, the folks who deliver the coffee and designer coffee all the way down to the rent-a-boys and girls in leather harnesses in the clubs get Christmas in February off of this show.
 
We're talking an multi-million dollar economic vitamin that we don't want to have move to, God-forbid, Teaneck, NJ - or other Godless venue.
 
However, the realization has been realized that Parks are not an appropriate place to park this elephant, twice a year, no matter how much gold it poops. 
 
And that is a major sea change for this town. So I'm taking a rare optimistic position on this one.
 
And anyway, it's too much of a pain-in-the-butt to move the carousel.
 
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