{"id":4257,"date":"2011-05-17T07:05:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T11:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:00:49","slug":"morning-read-laurential-project-delayed-in-plattsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/17\/morning-read-laurential-project-delayed-in-plattsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Laurentian project delayed in Plattsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x57644975\/Laurentian-construction-on-hold-expected-to-resume\">Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting <\/a>that complicated financing agreements for the massive airliner maintenance facility has delayed the project yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the big hangar was expected to begin last month but &#8220;unforeseen delays&#8221; slowed the process.<\/p>\n<p>Laurentian Aerospace Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer  Andrew Edwards told the newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[E]ngineers and contractors have now been asked to stop work due to the delay.<\/p>\n<p>The $175 million hangar to provide maintenance, repair and overhaul  service for wide-bodied aircraft is expected to create 200 to 300 jobs  at startup and up to 900 within two years of operation, if the project  is fully realized.<\/p>\n<p>Construction was expected to start in April and take about 18 months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edwards declined to give details about why the agreements haven&#8217;t been finalized.\u00a0 He predicts that the project will resume within three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Laurentian is perhaps the most significant economic development project in the eastern North Country.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x57644975\/Laurentian-construction-on-hold-expected-to-resume\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Plattsburgh Press-Republican is reporting that complicated financing agreements for the massive airliner maintenance facility [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}