{"id":8417,"date":"2010-05-03T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2010-05-01T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T13:50:54","slug":"n-f-ont-convention-center-progressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/03\/n-f-ont-convention-center-progressing\/","title":{"rendered":"N.F., Ont. convention center progressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/buffalo\/stories\/2010\/04\/26\/daily54.html\">Buffalo Business First<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One year to the day that ground was broken on the $100 million Niagara Convention &amp; Civic Centre, the project hit a major milestone.<\/p>\n<p>The 288,000-square-foot Stanley Avenue center, being constructed just a short walk from the Niagara Fallsview Casino in the thriving Niagara Falls, Ont., was officially \u201ctopped\u201d off Friday afternoon under the watchful eyes of Niagara regional political and business leaders as well as a crew of construction workers who are building the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The center is scheduled to open in April 2011 and is viewed as major piece of Niagara Falls\u2019 growing portfolio of hospitality and tourism-based ventures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis changes our city forever,\u201d said Niagara Falls Mayor Ted Salci.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: N.F., Ont. convention center progressing &#8211; Business First of Buffalo:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Buffalo Business First: One year to the day that ground was broken on the $100 million Niagara Convention &amp; Civic Centre, the project hit a major milestone. The 288,000-square-foot Stanley Avenue center, being constructed just a short walk from the Niagara Fallsview Casino in the thriving Niagara Falls, Ont., was officially \u201ctopped\u201d off Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"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":[359,29,2],"tags":[69,157,3317,850,190,856],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-convention-centre","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-convention-centre","tag-fallsview-casino","tag-mayor","tag-niagara-convention-and-civic-centre","tag-stanley-ave","tag-ted-salci"],"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\/8417","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=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}