The configuration of one of the floors of the Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre is completed and brings an end to work on the US$100 million development. It is now able to accommodate large trade shows, conferences and expositions, hotelier Robert Badal has disclosed.
“The trade exposition floor is completed. No longer will companies have to use a parking lot to do trade expos. We configured 30,000 sq feet in a Las Vegas-style trade convention and exposition facility,” Badal told Stabroek News.
“It is fully air-conditioned, overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. We can accommodate 200 expo booths and have space for an additional 100 expo booths in another part of the property. People can come and have their trade expositions in a first-world environment with all the first-world facilities and amenities, as you overlook the Atlantic Ocean. There is also access to high-end restaurants and the Pegasus executive business suites… So it is a one stop shop,” he added.
Badal said that the idea to outfit the floor for conventions was to serve the need of growing conferences and expositions here since oil and gas discovery. The intent is to offer clients an environment that is protective against the tropical elements of rain floods and sweltering heat.
“… So an expo can happen during any season; rain or hot sun, you are protected,” he said.
He said people have also asked him about environmentally friendly ways of providing meals, such as dining in, where plastic food boxes would not have to be used. “We catered to that call and now persons don’t have to receive lunch in a box…,” he said.
Badal was quick to point out that since a number of local expositions are held annually, local businesses and government will be given competitive rates to afford the facility. “Overall we have competitive rates,” he said.
During a previous interview with Stabroek News, Badal said that the entire complex will offer the most innovative, mixed-use facilities on par with any first-world facility of the same nature. It will also be complemented by the food and entertainment facilities currently offered by the Pegasus Hotel.
The Pegasus Suites and Corporate Centre near the Kingston hotel is a seven-storey, state-of-the-art corporate office complex adjacent to a 15-storey tower offering luxury residential accommodation. These buildings are on the eastern part of the property. It has been described as the largest investment here by a Guyanese.
When it was commissioned last July, as Badal hailed it “historic” and “unrivalled in the region.”
The facility was constructed by China Harbour Engineering Company and facilitated through financing from Republic Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.
