{"id":18673,"date":"2017-01-19T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-19T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18673"},"modified":"2017-01-19T12:31:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T17:31:22","slug":"former-arena-to-be-demolished-for-titanic-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/19\/former-arena-to-be-demolished-for-titanic-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Former arena to be demolished for Titanic museum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This goes along with <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/11\/a-proposal-to-replace-the-old-arena-with-an-attraction\/\">my posting from last week<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/2017\/01\/19\/former-arena-to-demolished-for-titanic-museum\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former Niagara Falls Memorial Arena could be demolished and replaced with a museum dedicated to \u2014 and modeled after \u2014 the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s committee of adjustment approved an application from businessman David van Velzen this week for minor variances to a bylaw that would allow for a new facility to be built in the shape of the historic British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre Street building, which most recently housed a sand sculpture attraction, was put up for sale in November 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This goes along with my posting from last week&#8230; From the Niagara Falls Review: The former Niagara Falls Memorial Arena could be demolished and replaced with a museum dedicated to \u2014 and modeled after \u2014 the Titanic. The city\u2019s committee of adjustment approved an application from businessman David van Velzen this week for minor variances&#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":[16,29,2],"tags":[9282,11271,1974,11633,2624,1139,11697,9109,3930,11425],"class_list":["post-18673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-attractions","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-bylaw","tag-centre-street","tag-david-van-velzen","tag-niagara-falls-memorial-arena","tag-niagara-falls-review","tag-passenger-liner","tag-sand-sculpture","tag-titanic","tag-variance"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673","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=18673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18674,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18673\/revisions\/18674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}