{"id":21620,"date":"2019-08-02T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=21620"},"modified":"2019-08-02T10:30:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:30:30","slug":"15-million-plan-for-niagara-falls-beach-club-draws-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/02\/15-million-plan-for-niagara-falls-beach-club-draws-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"$15 million plan for Niagara Falls &#8216;beach club&#8217; draws controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/news\/i-team\/15-million-plan-for-niagara-falls-beach-club-draws-controversy\">WKBW Channel 7<\/a> in Buffalo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A proposed $15 million \u201cbeach and surf club\u201d in downtown Niagara Falls has been tangled up in controversy over whether the developer \u201ccopied and pasted\u201d artist renderings from a defunct project in Japan.<\/p><p>Developer Michael DiCienzo is seeking $4 million in public subsidies for his year-round surf club concept, which would be built on to his Sheraton hotel on Third Street and would include a retractable roof, a wave pool and even marine animals.<\/p><p>\u201c[I\u2019m] absolutely excited,\u201d said Niagara Falls City Councilman Kenny Tompkins. \u201cCan\u2019t wait for something like this to come to fruition here in the Falls.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo: A proposed $15 million \u201cbeach and surf club\u201d in downtown Niagara Falls has been tangled up in controversy over whether the developer \u201ccopied and pasted\u201d artist renderings from a defunct project in Japan. Developer Michael DiCienzo is seeking $4 million in public subsidies for his year-round surf club concept,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,54,2],"tags":[13410,351,13412,961,653,41,3557,13411,5735],"class_list":["post-21620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-beach-club","tag-downtown","tag-kenny-tompkins","tag-michael-dicienzo","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-sheraton-hotel","tag-surf-club","tag-third-street"],"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\/21620","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=21620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21621,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions\/21621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}