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Home  »  Business News  »  Queensbury Hotel Expansion, Designed By Phinney Design Group, Opens For Business
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Queensbury Hotel Expansion, Designed By Phinney Design Group, Opens For Business

Posted onAugust 8, 2022
The Queensbury Hotel’s 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.

By Paul Post

Downtown Glens Falls’ slow, steady resurgence just got a boost with the July 21 grand opening of Queensbury Hotel’s $3.8 million new Adirondack Ballroom.

The 5,200-square-foot facility more than doubles the historic hotel’s capacity for hosting conferences and special events, which can further fuel the local economy.

“We’re 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,” said Tyler Herrick, hotel general manager. “Before 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.”

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.

“I’m more excited about that than I am for The Queensbury itself because I love this community,” said Ed Moore, who purchased the hotel in March 2016. “I’m so proud of this place. We brought it (the ballroom) home and brought it in on time.”

“This is going to be enormous,” said Jim Siplon, EDC Warren County president and CEO. “Every 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’s 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.”

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.”

Saratoga Springs-based Phinney Design Group handled architectural work while V&H Construction Inc. of Fort Edward was the general contractor.

“Any time we do an historic building there’s always going to be things that pop up,” said Ed Anker, Phinney’s project manager. “We ran into a lot of that here. We found a lot of crumbling things and some of the past additions weren’t really done that well. We were very sensitive to match the building’s 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.”

“Phinney Design Group was honored to provide Architectural and Interior Design services for the new Adirondack Ballroom project,” said Mike Phinney, owner and principal architect of Phinney Design Group. “We 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.”

V&H owner and president Rob Holbrook said his firm’s 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’s rear parking lot, as handsome glass French doors didn’t arrive in time for the grand opening reception, with about 250 well-wishers on hand.

Precise Painting & Wallcovering (Hudson Falls) did all the finishes, Glens Falls Metal Fabricators (Fort Edward) handled heating, ventilation and air conditioning work, while Adirondack P&M (Queensbury) took care of plumbing.

Herrick said the ballroom addition has created 15 new jobs, adding to the hotel’s staff that has grown from 35 to 100 employees since Moore purchased the property.

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.

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