{"id":10483,"date":"2011-12-28T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=10483"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:40:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T01:40:59","slug":"npc-buying-cullen-miniature-village-for-100k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/28\/npc-buying-cullen-miniature-village-for-100k\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC buying Cullen Miniature Village for $100k"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3398375\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First a carousel, now a miniature Ferris wheel.<\/p>\n<p>The Niagara Parks Commission will be the proud new owner of a three-foot-tall wooden Ferris wheel, part of a 180-piece miniature village collection it is buying for $113,000. The Cullen Miniature Village, once a popular tourist destination in Whitby, will be restored and set up on parks commission land, now that the NPC&#8217;s offer to buy the collection has been accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Oshawa, which bought the collection in a controversial $239,000 deal from the Cullen family in 2007, unanimously voted to accept the commission&#8217;s offer during a special committee meeting Thursday. That decision is expected to be approved by the full council Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These councillors just wanted this done with,&#8221; Oshawa director of finance services Chris Brown said Thursday. &#8220;They would have loved to get (the full purchase price) back, but the market is what it is, so I think they&#8217;ll endorse this Monday night.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: First a carousel, now a miniature Ferris wheel. The Niagara Parks Commission will be the proud new owner of a three-foot-tall wooden Ferris wheel, part of a 180-piece miniature village collection it is buying for $113,000. The Cullen Miniature Village, once a popular tourist destination in Whitby, will be restored&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[6691,6689,6690,288,41,99,255,2144],"class_list":["post-10483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-chris-brown","tag-city-of-oshawa","tag-cullen-family","tag-ferris-wheel","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-parks-commission","tag-npc","tag-tourist-destination"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}