{"id":8730,"date":"2010-06-30T08:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=8730"},"modified":"2010-06-29T14:43:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T18:43:26","slug":"free-parking-festivals-for-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/free-parking-festivals-for-downtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Free parking, festivals for downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagarafallsreview.ca\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2645739\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two-hour free parking and 10 weeks of weekend festivals are the keys to this summer&#8217;s plan to generate activity in downtown Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>The Downtown Business Improvement Area board asked city council to use $250,000 of city money to help it run special events this summer, to cover the cost of free parking along Queen St., and to install fibre optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>That money should come from the $940,000 in a reserve fund that was earmarked for the city&#8217;s Community Improvement Plan, a program created to fund beautification projects and a program of grants and loans aimed at getting property owners to improve the appearance of their buildings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: Two-hour free parking and 10 weeks of weekend festivals are the keys to this summer&#8217;s plan to generate activity in downtown Niagara Falls. The Downtown Business Improvement Area board asked city council to use $250,000 of city money to help it run special events this summer, to cover the cost&#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":[2],"tags":[3902,2863,2482,1110,3905,3903,3904,1597],"class_list":["post-8730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-beautification-projects","tag-board","tag-business-improvement-area","tag-city-council","tag-downtown-business-improvement-area","tag-fibre-optic-cable","tag-free-parking","tag-queen-st"],"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\/8730","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=8730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}