{"id":18521,"date":"2017-01-11T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18521"},"modified":"2017-01-10T13:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T18:44:30","slug":"a-proposal-to-replace-the-old-arena-with-an-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/a-proposal-to-replace-the-old-arena-with-an-attraction\/","title":{"rendered":"A proposal to replace the old arena with an attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"

In last week’s \u201cCenter Gift Shop\u201d torn down for a parking lot<\/a> posting, regular visitor Drafty left a comment about another potential development in the city. Apparently the old arena on Centre St may be torn down to make way for an attraction that is a big boat (Drafty guess the Titanic). The a document on the city web site<\/a> (or here<\/a> if the city website link changes) indicates the application came from a David van Velzen. I searched for his name on Google, and the top result is a link to a LinkedIn profile. his title is “Owner\/Director at The Titanic Project Inc”<\/p>\n

I drive by the old arena twice a day on my way to and from work, and I’ve never noticed any notice of public meeting. After Drafty linked to the document, the next time I drove over I pulled over to check out the building. As you can see by the pictures, I don’t imagine there were many people who could see the “Notice of Public Meeting” behind the glass on the door third from the\u00a0right!<\/p>\n

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You may recall that at one point HOCO Limited<\/a> (the company that owns the south side of Clifton Hill<\/a>, the company I work for) was considering a Titanic attraction<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last week’s \u201cCenter Gift Shop\u201d torn down for a parking lot posting, regular visitor Drafty left a comment about another potential development in the city. Apparently the old arena on Centre St may be torn down to make way for an attraction that is a big boat (Drafty guess the Titanic). The a document…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16,29],"tags":[1092,1546,11633,661,11631,3930],"class_list":["post-18521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-developments","tag-arena","tag-centre-st","tag-david-van-velzen","tag-development","tag-drafty","tag-titanic"],"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\/18521","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=18521"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18547,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18521\/revisions\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}