{"id":11813,"date":"2012-10-08T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11813"},"modified":"2012-10-06T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T14:56:33","slug":"falls-starting-to-make-development-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/falls-starting-to-make-development-gains\/","title":{"rendered":"Falls starting to make development gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20120927\/CITYANDREGION\/120929119\/1002\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group of tourists on their way to Niagara Falls a decade ago would first notice the crumbling city streets.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the seedy hotels and shuttered attractions of a ghostly downtown.<\/p>\n<p>It looked nothing like the kind of place millions of world travelers flock to each year.<\/p>\n<p>But as Lt. Gov. Robert J. Duffy cuts the ribbon this morning on Niagara County Community College&#8217;s $30 million Culinary Institute Niagara Falls, the landscape has changed considerably.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t match the scale of development in Canada, and most acknowledge that the city is years away from realizing its potential.<\/p>\n<p>But after decades of staying away, successful developers are finally becoming interested in the American side of the falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: A group of tourists on their way to Niagara Falls a decade ago would first notice the crumbling city streets. Then came the seedy hotels and shuttered attractions of a ghostly downtown. It looked nothing like the kind of place millions of world travelers flock to each year. But as Lt&#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":[29,54,2],"tags":[319,1237,8143,4993,1878,8139,41,8141,8140,8142,84],"class_list":["post-11813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buffalo-news","tag-canada","tag-culinary-institute-niagara-falls","tag-developers","tag-landscape","tag-niagara-county-community-college","tag-niagara-falls","tag-ribbon","tag-robert-j-duffy","tag-seedy-hotels","tag-tourists"],"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\/11813","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=11813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11814,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11813\/revisions\/11814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}