Alas, the Art Show will again be on the 16th floor; this is due to several factors but the most important one is...lack of space elsewhere. While I'm sure many find the Art Show interesting, taking up the main ballroom (which is the only room of close to equivalent size) for most of the con would probably annoy many others.

Maybe I'm behind on the loop - but is there any chance of ever getting Arisia back to Park Plaza?

My understand is that Arisia will not be back in the Park Plaza in the foreseeable future; without going into too many details, I can say that scheduling for hotels is done quite a bit in advance and I don't believe the Park Plaza is available for our weekend anytime soon. Note that I'm not on the hotel committee so I could be wrong about this.