{"id":194,"date":"2006-04-12T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:34:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T14:34:15","slug":"great_wolf_makes_big_splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/12\/great_wolf_makes_big_splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Wolf makes big splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?151\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new major tourist attraction is set to open its doors in Niagara Falls, sparking hopes the city&#8217;s tourism industry will start to flourish outside of the traditional prime-time summer season.<\/p>\n<p>Ripley Entertainment Inc., a Jim Pattison Group company, is host of tomorrow&#8217;s grand opening for its new 406-room Great Wolf Lodge Resort and indoor water park measuring over 100,000 square feet. It will be the first Great Wolf Lodge in Canada and is part of a $200-million development on 25 acres of land at Victoria Avenue and Niagara Parkway, across from Niagara Helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls Mayor Ted Salci said the opening of Great Wolf is a major event that will help boost the city&#8217;s reputation as a top-notch draw for families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is really going to raise the calibre for what we have to offer in terms of family destinations,&#8221; he said Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: A new major tourist attraction is set to open its doors in Niagara Falls, sparking hopes the city&#8217;s tourism industry will start to flourish outside of the traditional prime-time summer season. Ripley Entertainment Inc., a Jim Pattison Group company, is host of tomorrow&#8217;s grand opening for its new 406-room Great Wolf&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"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\/194","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}