{"id":4330,"date":"2011-06-07T06:40:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2011-06-13T15:45:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:45:47","slug":"morning-read-hearings-probe-marketability-of-big-tupper-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/06\/07\/morning-read-hearings-probe-marketability-of-big-tupper-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: Hearings probe marketability of Big Tupper resort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/17519\/20110422\/tupper-lake-resort-faces-deep-skepticism-in-business-community\">NCPR looked in-depth<\/a> at the question of whether the Adirondack Club and Resort project in Tupper Lake is economically viable, or feasible.\u00a0 We found significant skepticism within the business community.<\/p>\n<p>The hearings now underway in Tupper Lake &#8212; part of the Adirondack Park Agency&#8217;s review &#8212; are now focusing on this question and there has been a flurry of interesting coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the way is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/524868.html\">Jessica Collier at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a>, who notes in her reports that green groups are questioning the marketability of the vacation homes, and the fact that prices for the properties have been raised significantly despite the recession.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denpubs.com\/Articles-c-2011-06-03-107043.114134-sub-Green-group-says-ACR-developers-skewed-data-in-their-favor.html\">Denton Publications and WNBZ<\/a>, George Earl notes that critics of the project are also questioning whether the developers are basing their project on sound economic estimates.<\/p>\n<p>These hearings come at a time when there are still significant reports nationally that the housing market remains seriously crippled by the recession.<\/p>\n<p>Experts speaking on behalf of ACR&#8217;s developers, however, maintain that high-end buyers can still be found with enough cash to invest in the resort.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the articles above and leave comments below.\u00a0 This is an emotional issue, so please be courteous and thoughtful, as always&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April, NCPR looked in-depth at the question of whether the Adirondack Club and Resort [&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":[5693,10,4817],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330"}],"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=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}