{"id":2102,"date":"2007-09-19T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/19\/mayor-casino-deal-great-news\/"},"modified":"2007-09-19T09:34:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T13:34:51","slug":"mayor-casino-deal-great-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/mayor-casino-deal-great-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor: Casino deal great news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1019\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A commitment from the provincial government to extend a lease agreement for Casino Niagara is being heralded as great news by the city&#8217;s mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor last week indicated a long-term lease extension for Casino Niagara will be coming down the pipeline in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the result of two years of lobbying the provincial government for a new long-term lease for the casino by Mayor Ted Salci, city and regional officials and members of the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is great news for the entire Niagara region,&#8221; said Salci, who noted 2,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in new development in the Clifton Hill area could have been lost if Casino Niagara was shut down. &#8220;We are encouraged we will have something formal to celebrate (soon).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: A commitment from the provincial government to extend a lease agreement for Casino Niagara is being heralded as great news by the city&#8217;s mayor. Niagara Falls MPP Kim Craitor last week indicated a long-term lease extension for Casino Niagara will be coming down the pipeline in the next few weeks. It&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","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\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}