{"id":1410,"date":"2007-03-27T11:15:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/convention-centre-would-generate-93-million-advocate\/"},"modified":"2007-03-27T11:15:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:15:49","slug":"convention-centre-would-generate-93-million-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/27\/convention-centre-would-generate-93-million-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Convention centre would generate $93 million: advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?662\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A new convention centre for Niagara Falls could generate at least $93 million in new revenue for the economy and wouldn&#8217;t cost the city a cent, says the man heading the drive for the facility.But federal and provincial funding is crucial to the project moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The private sector dollars have been committed,&#8221; said Dragan Matovic, who&#8217;s heading up the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre project. &#8220;If they (the provincial and federal governments) don&#8217;t commit, the project isn&#8217;t going to happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Matovic unveiled plans to council for a $92 million, 231,700-square foot facility for the Fallsview tourist area at Monday&#8217;s community services meeting. At the same time, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, was delivering his government&#8217;s second budget.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: A new convention centre for Niagara Falls could generate at least $93 million in new revenue for the economy and wouldn&#8217;t cost the city a cent, says the man heading the drive for the facility.But federal and provincial funding is crucial to the project moving forward. &#8220;The private sector dollars have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/1410","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}