{"id":2904,"date":"2008-05-01T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/building-a-low-risk-convention-centre\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T11:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:32:41","slug":"building-a-low-risk-convention-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/building-a-low-risk-convention-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a low-risk convention centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1404\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Plans for the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre are taking shape, but it will be later this year before anyone knows how the building will look.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now that we have a game plan in place, a lot of people are curious to see what the convention centre will look like,&#8221; said Dragan Matovic, project director for the $92-million centre to be built on Stanley Avenue, about 500 metres west of the Horseshoe Falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t have any information. Sorry to tease you,&#8221; he said at a luncheon Wednesday hosted by the Niagara Falls Canada Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>But the &#8220;design-build procurement process&#8221; being used for the convention centre means private companies that will bid on the project will be responsible for the design, said Matovic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another interesting quote from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Parker, the general manager for Ripley&#8217;s Entertainment, said more off-season business is the &#8220;driving force&#8221; in his company&#8217;s decision to build a $70-million aquarium.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Are the committed now to build the aquarium?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Plans for the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre are taking shape, but it will be later this year before anyone knows how the building will look. &#8220;Now that we have a game plan in place, a lot of people are curious to see what the convention centre will look like,&#8221;&#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-2904","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\/2904","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=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}