The Board of Trustees for the General Theological Seminary has approved in principle a $21 million capital campaign, part of which would be used to create a 60-room, three-star hotel and conference center. The board met Feb. 6-7 at the seminary campus in New York City.

An outline of the still incomplete plan for the hotel and conference center calls for the redevelopment of three existing seminary buildings along Tenth Avenue — the refectory, Eigenbrodt Hall and Chelsea Nos. 8 and 9.

The Very Rev. Ward B. Ewing, dean and president, said the seminary hopes to offer members of the Episcopal Church and other not-for-profit organizations a facility similar in purpose to what the College of Preachers offers visitors in Washington, D.C.