{"id":9504,"date":"2011-02-01T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2011-02-01T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T17:03:37","slug":"fixing-the-falls-inspiration-is-right-across-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/01\/fixing-the-falls-inspiration-is-right-across-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"FIXING THE FALLS: Inspiration is right across the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/niagara-gazette.com\/local\/x54037584\/FIXING-THE-FALLS-Inspiration-is-right-across-the-border\">Niagara Gazette<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Credit the idea for this week\u2019s Sunday centerpiece to Frank Croisdale, founder of the group Niagara Rises.<\/p>\n<p>I was chatting with him about our plans for the ongoing series on economic development when he mentioned Queen Street in Niagara Falls, Ont.<\/p>\n<p>Frank described it as a street not unlike, say, Main Street, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The strip had lost a lot of its luster and had more empty storefronts than filled ones.<\/p>\n<p>As Frank told it, some people came along with an idea to rebuild Queen Street\u2019s vitality by, well, basically giving away some of the empty space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Gazette: Credit the idea for this week\u2019s Sunday centerpiece to Frank Croisdale, founder of the group Niagara Rises. I was chatting with him about our plans for the ongoing series on economic development when he mentioned Queen Street in Niagara Falls, Ont. Frank described it as a street not unlike, say, Main&#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":[29,54,2],"tags":[790,5015,5012,2052,41,10407,300,561,5013,244,5014],"class_list":["post-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-new-york","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-economic-development","tag-empty-space","tag-frank-croisdale","tag-main-street","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-new-york","tag-niagara-falls-ontario","tag-niagara-gazette","tag-niagara-rises","tag-queen-street","tag-vitality"],"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\/9504","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=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}