{"id":1546,"date":"2007-05-04T10:27:13","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/04\/region-supports-convention-centre\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T14:27:13","slug":"region-supports-convention-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/region-supports-convention-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Region supports convention centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?717\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Regional councillors have given approval in principle to a plan to lease a 20-acre parcel of land to the City of Niagara Falls to provide parking for the proposed Niagara Convention and Civic Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made during regional council&#8217;s meeting Thursday evening, following a presentation by Dragan Matovic, the convention centre&#8217;s project director, and Brian Stanford, of PKF Consulting, the firm engaged to perform a feasibility study on the convention centre proposal.<\/p>\n<p>They urged regional councillors to see the lease of the property, located between Stanley Avenue and Ailanthus Avenue, as the region&#8217;s contribution to a project that will benefit all of Niagara&#8217;s citizens, not just the residents of Niagara Falls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Regional councillors have given approval in principle to a plan to lease a 20-acre parcel of land to the City of Niagara Falls to provide parking for the proposed Niagara Convention and Civic Centre. The decision was made during regional council&#8217;s meeting Thursday evening, following a presentation by Dragan Matovic, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","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\/1546","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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}