{"id":4022,"date":"2008-09-15T09:09:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T13:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2008-09-15T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T13:09:08","slug":"maid-of-mist-firm-plans-to-buy-hotel-near-brink-of-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/maid-of-mist-firm-plans-to-buy-hotel-near-brink-of-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Maid of Mist firm plans to buy hotel near brink of falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/c\/?1740\">Buffalo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time in its 162-year history, the Maid of the Mist Corp. is going into the hotel business.<\/p>\n<p>The world-famous tour boat company is buying the Comfort Inn The Pointe, the downtown hotel closest to the brink of the American Falls.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a new venture for us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tim Ruddy, the Maid of the Mist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vice president of marketing, said Friday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re very excited to be entering that area of the tourism industry.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The sale is expected to close early in January, Ruddy said. He declined to mention a price, but local real estate dealers estimated it could range between $10 million and $15 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Buffalo News: For the first time in its 162-year history, the Maid of the Mist Corp. is going into the hotel business. The world-famous tour boat company is buying the Comfort Inn The Pointe, the downtown hotel closest to the brink of the American Falls. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a new venture for us,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tim&#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-4022","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\/4022","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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}