Last year, he announced an ambitious plan to make the hotel part of a tourist magnet that would include a jazz center and a park.

But it is to have a glass "curtain," a spectacular Central Park view from the jazz center, and views from the outside into the center.

Through the 1950s Detroit was a jazz center with stars of the era often came to Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood to perform.

Brooks Brothers has donated an undisclosed sum to the jazz center for the privilege of being its official clothier.

Nevertheless, Japanese musicians are still lured to such jazz centers as New York to study and perform.

The jazz center is a very upscale facility that we think will enhance the apartments, the hotels and the retail space.

The title is a reference to 52nd Street, which was one of New York City's jazz centers in the middle of the century.

"You're in New York, the jazz center of the world."

Through the 1950s, Detroit was one of America's most important jazz centers.

Includes a look at Tavern on the Green, Central Park and the site for a new jazz center.