{"id":11859,"date":"2012-10-11T15:00:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=11859"},"modified":"2012-10-17T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T16:29:22","slug":"canadian-motor-speedway-close-to-a-groundbreaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/11\/canadian-motor-speedway-close-to-a-groundbreaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Motor Speedway close to a groundbreaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2012\/10\/09\/close-to-a-groundbreaking\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man behind the Canadian Motor Speedway project is banking on a groundbreaking by the beginning of winter.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director Azhar Mohammad said while the results of the Ontario Municipal Board&#8217;s decision haven&#8217;t been released yet, he&#8217;s remaining optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There really wasn&#8217;t any opposition,&#8221; he said of the hearing that ended June 28. &#8220;(Opposition groups) didn&#8217;t have the experts and (their points) were more opinionated with less facts to back it up, so I think we did a pretty good job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said he expects the results to be released any day now and if everything goes according to plan, a special groundbreaking ceremony could happen as early as this fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would take a couple of months to do the planning, but we have our teams in place,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Realistically, there would be no brick and mortar, but maybe some dirt moving and pre-grading work.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: The man behind the Canadian Motor Speedway project is banking on a groundbreaking by the beginning of winter. Executive Director Azhar Mohammad said while the results of the Ontario Municipal Board&#8217;s decision haven&#8217;t been released yet, he&#8217;s remaining optimistic. &#8220;There really wasn&#8217;t any opposition,&#8221; he said of the hearing that&#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":[29,611,2],"tags":[8176,8175,2065,1392,5290,2061,8177,6856,1689],"class_list":["post-11859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-nascar","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-azhar-mohammad","tag-brick-and-mortar","tag-canadian-motor-speedway","tag-groundbreaking-ceremony","tag-hearing","tag-motor-speedway","tag-naigara-falls-review","tag-omb","tag-ontario-municipal-board"],"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\/11859","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=11859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15138,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11859\/revisions\/15138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}