{"id":9236,"date":"2010-11-03T13:00:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9236"},"modified":"2010-11-03T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T15:42:11","slug":"chasing-smokestacks-is-just-wishful-thinking-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/03\/chasing-smokestacks-is-just-wishful-thinking-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing smokestacks is just ‘wishful thinking,’ experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n

High-rise hotels, like the 53-storey Hilton that opened last year, have replaced smokestacks as the symbol of where the jobs are in Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n

It’s a sign of Niagara’s changing economy and evidence municipal leaders have to be able to adapt to new economic trends, say experts who monitor the health of Niagara’s economy.<\/p>\n

The idea that any economically challenged region can revive the days when big factories employed thousands of people is just “wishful thinking,” says Charles Conteh, a Brock University political science professor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the Niagara Falls Review: High-rise hotels, like the 53-storey Hilton that opened last year, have replaced smokestacks as the symbol of where the jobs are in Niagara Falls. It’s a sign of Niagara’s changing economy and evidence municipal leaders have to be able to adapt to new economic trends, say experts who monitor the…<\/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":[2,49],"tags":[4662,4664,963,1573,80,2142,4663,4665],"class_list":["post-9236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-news","category-niagara-falls-tourism-industry","tag-brock-university","tag-economic-trends","tag-economy","tag-high-rise-hotels","tag-hilton","tag-municipal-leaders","tag-political-science-professor","tag-smokestacks"],"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\/9236","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=9236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}