{"id":9666,"date":"2011-04-08T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:38:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T17:38:56","slug":"opening-set-n-f-ont-convention-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/08\/opening-set-n-f-ont-convention-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening set N.F., Ont. convention center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/buffalo\/news\/2011\/04\/05\/opening-set-nf-ont-convention-center.html?ana=RSS&amp;s=article_search&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_buffalo+%28Business+First+of+Buffalo%29\">Buffalo Business First<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just a few days before the grand opening of the Scotiabank Convention Centre, Kerry Painter is able to finally get rid of her hard hat and steel-toed shoes as she walks around the building.<\/p>\n<p>The 288,000-square-foot Niagara Falls, Ont. convention center is that close to opening.<\/p>\n<p>Crews inside and outside the Stanley Avenue facility are spending the final days before the center\u2019s official debut Friday afternoon focusing less on bricks-and-mortar issues and more on putting the final touches on the $100 million building that many believe will be a critical piece of Niagara Falls\u2019 tourism and hospitality business.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Buffalo Business First: Just a few days before the grand opening of the Scotiabank Convention Centre, Kerry Painter is able to finally get rid of her hard hat and steel-toed shoes as she walks around the building. The 288,000-square-foot Niagara Falls, Ont. convention center is that close to opening. Crews inside and outside the&#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":[1153,5280,5281,1688,1114,5282,1077,41,180,652,4767,356,418],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-convention-centre","category-niagara-falls-developments","category-niagara-falls-news","tag-buffalo-business-first","tag-convention-center","tag-facility","tag-grand-opening","tag-hospitality","tag-james-fink","tag-kerry-painter","tag-niagara-falls","tag-niagara-falls-tourism","tag-ontario","tag-scotiabank-convention-centre","tag-stanley-avenue","tag-tourism"],"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\/9666","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=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9667,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}