{"id":18102,"date":"2016-11-03T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18102"},"modified":"2016-11-03T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T16:12:57","slug":"niagara-falls-wants-say-in-next-casino-operator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/niagara-falls-wants-say-in-next-casino-operator\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls wants say in next casino operator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2016\/10\/27\/niagara-falls-wants-say-in-next-casino-operator\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Niagara Falls wants its voice heard as Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. seeks a service provider to run the day-to-day operations of the city\u2019s two casinos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very supportive of separately managed properties, so that we can utilize the benefits of competition,\u201d said Coun. Victor Pietrangelo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019d like to see both properties, not just one, re-branded and re-developed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said while the province is trying to find out what works best for its gaming modernization plan, the city needs to \u201clet them know what works best for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst and foremost is the long-term security of the employees at both of our casinos. Secondly, we have the businesses that rely on the casinos, and also the people that are employed by those businesses,\u201d said Pietrangelo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Falls wants its voice heard as Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. seeks a service provider to run the day-to-day operations of the city\u2019s two casinos. \u201cWe\u2019re very supportive of separately managed properties, so that we can utilize the benefits of competition,\u201d said Coun. Victor Pietrangelo. \u201cWe\u2019d like to see&#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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,2],"tags":[354,5110,11319,10770,41,1139,523,846,8730,11317,11318,1671],"class_list":["post-18102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-casinos-and-gaming","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-casino","tag-employees","tag-job-security","tag-modernization","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-olg","tag-olgc","tag-ontario-lottery-and-gaming-corp","tag-rebranded","tag-redeveloped","tag-victor-pietrangelo"],"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\/18102","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=18102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18103,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18102\/revisions\/18103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}