He said: "As we speak there's £250m of additional business in the ground in the city centre which will open in the next 12 months so it's certainly set the scene".
Invitations for consideration for next year's symposium will open in the next few months.
Most of the building's much-anticipated new high-end restaurants, presided over by celebrity chefs like Thomas Keller, Gray Kunz, Charlie Trotter and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, will open in the coming weeks and months.
His new film, "Paradise: Love" (the first installation in a trilogy that will open in the United States in the coming months), is a tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy and then replaces those responses with squirming discomfort.
It will open in the Admin Panel.
A burger joint called Petey's, which has a branch in Astoria, will open in coming months on Vernon, as will a spinoff of the Greenwich Village bar Corner Bistro, and a Vietnamese restaurant by the owners of the Thai restaurant Tuk Tuk, he said.
That does not include any new budget holes that many states fear will open in coming months.
In Qatar, Doha International airport, about 200 miles from Dubai, will open in 18 months' time with a capacity of 24m passengers a year, rising to twice that in 2015 (see chart 2).
The office will open in May, two months behind schedule.
The first facility was opened in Washington, D.C., in July, and the company claims two new facilities will open in a few months.
