{"id":9497,"date":"2011-01-24T13:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2011-01-24T10:23:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:23:58","slug":"economic-development-how-could-this-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/economic-development-how-could-this-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic development: How could this happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagara-gazette.com\/local\/x1221299177\/Economic-development-How-could-this-happen\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It almost defies logic.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Falls, N.Y. sits on the edge of one of the great wonders of the world.<\/p>\n<p>It boasts some of the highest-profile developers in America.<\/p>\n<p>The local governments have an array of economic development agencies and programs and assistance packages at the ready.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of visitors arrive each year, bringing with them millions of dollars in disposal income.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, the community as a whole continues to languish behind its more prosperous cross-border neighbor \u2014 Niagara Falls, Ontario, a city that is literally walking distance away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: It almost defies logic. Niagara Falls, N.Y. sits on the edge of one of the great wonders of the world. It boasts some of the highest-profile developers in America. The local governments have an array of economic development agencies and programs and assistance packages at the ready. Millions of visitors arrive&#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_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":[54,2],"tags":[4994,2417,4993,4991,4992,653,41,300,561],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-america","tag-cross-border","tag-developers","tag-economic-development-agencies","tag-neighbor","tag-new-york","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-ontario","tag-niagara-gazette"],"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\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}