{"id":18968,"date":"2017-02-16T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18968"},"modified":"2017-02-16T10:16:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T15:16:45","slug":"cuomos-goat-island-world-class-lodge-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/16\/cuomos-goat-island-world-class-lodge-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuomo\u2019s Goat Island \u2018World Class Lodge\u2019 Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagarafallsreporter.com\/cuomos-goat-island-world-class-lodge-fire\/\">Niagara Falls Reporter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The governor\u2019s Goat Island lodge plan, rolled out during one of his State of the State speeches in Amherst last month, is coming under strong attack from Niagara Falls legislators.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gov. Andrew Cuomo said it is time for a \u201cworld class lodge\u201d on Goat Island, something to create a year-round tourism destination, but three of the Cataract City\u2019s county legislators will sponsor legislation next week opposing the governor\u2019s plan as the wrong investment in the wrong place, urging Cuomo to focus instead on downtown economic development.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, co-sponsored by Minority Leader Dennis Virtuoso (6th District, including the state park), Legislator Jason Zona (5th District) and Legislator Owen Steed (4th District) would oppose \u201cfurther commercialization of the Niagara Reservation State Park,\u201d and would ask the governor to cease any efforts to develop a \u201clodge hotel\u201d anywhere in the state park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Niagara Gazette &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagara-gazette.com\/news\/local_news\/falls-lawmakers-oppose-goat-island-lodge-plan\/article_7cdddc72-e050-5a45-a177-5359d62c8265.html\">Falls lawmakers oppose Goat Island lodge plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Reporter: The governor\u2019s Goat Island lodge plan, rolled out during one of his State of the State speeches in Amherst last month, is coming under strong attack from Niagara Falls legislators.<\/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":[29,54,2],"tags":[5823,3050,5547,651,5824,11930,283,4856,11932,11931,11677,418],"class_list":["post-18968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-andrew-cuomo","tag-dennis-virtuoso","tag-destination","tag-goat-island","tag-governor","tag-jason-zona","tag-lodge","tag-niagara-falls-reporter","tag-niagara-reservation-state-park","tag-owen-steed","tag-state-of-the-state","tag-tourism"],"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\/18968","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=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18969,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions\/18969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}