the executive education center, named for sponsor verizon, would be completed in 2019. it would have a 300-person hall and four classrooms that could fit 50 to 75 students. there would also be smaller conference rooms spread around the building as well as a buffet hall. unlike the glass facade designs on the three buildings opened in 2017, the executive education center would have a wood-and-aluminum facade. the center as proposed also includes a 195-room hotel, the island's first. the hotel would serve mainly to provide lodging for the campus's guests, but would also be open to new york city visitors in general. it would have a restaurant and cafe as well as a bar on the roof. the center and hotel would be connected via a corridor, skirting the campus's tech walk, and the hotel would also be situated above a public area. according to cornell tech's senior director of capital projects, the executive education center and hotel would serve as cornell tech's "front door."