{"id":18929,"date":"2017-02-14T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18929"},"modified":"2017-02-13T10:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T15:30:43","slug":"city-desk-cuomo-called-out-over-goat-island-lodge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/14\/city-desk-cuomo-called-out-over-goat-island-lodge\/","title":{"rendered":"CITY DESK: Cuomo called out over Goat Island \u2018lodge\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara-gazette.com\/opinion\/city-desk-cuomo-called-out-over-goat-island-lodge\/article_5fcf6dd6-f1bc-11e6-977a-93eeab024795.html\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The \u201cbottom-up,\u201d \u201ccommunity first\u201d approach to development and redevelopment has been all the rage in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>It seems, after decades of essentially telling the people what\u2019s best for them, public officials and entities finally figured out that there are advantages to getting what they like to call \u201ccommunity buy-in\u201d before moving forward with a project.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing worse than rolling something out only to face stiff opposition.<\/p>\n<p>Poor early reviews tend to linger and can plague a project through completion and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why it\u2019s hard to blame people in the Niagara Falls area who have been scratching their heads over Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s recent announcement about plans to build a lodge on Goat Island.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: The \u201cbottom-up,\u201d \u201ccommunity first\u201d approach to development and redevelopment has been all the rage in recent years. It seems, after decades of essentially telling the people what\u2019s best for them, public officials and entities finally figured out that there are advantages to getting what they like to call \u201ccommunity buy-in\u201d before&#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":[54,2],"tags":[5823,651,283,41,10407,561,4259],"class_list":["post-18929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-goat-island","tag-lodge","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-new-york","tag-niagara-gazette","tag-redevelopment"],"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\/18929","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=18929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18930,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18929\/revisions\/18930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}