{"id":5018,"date":"2011-11-08T07:57:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T12:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5018"},"modified":"2011-11-09T08:42:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T13:42:33","slug":"morning-read-economic-progress-in-plattsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/11\/08\/morning-read-economic-progress-in-plattsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Economic progress in Plattsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week, the <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1194247530\/Kohls-plan-receives-initial-approval\">Plattsburgh Press Republican<\/a> has run a couple of stories pointing at the vitality of New York&#8217;s northernmost city.<\/p>\n<p>The latest news is a plan for a Kohl&#8217;s department store and possibly other major retail development.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The project calls for a 55,500-square-foot store slated to be built  where the P&amp;C grocery store used to stand in the former Ames Plaza  on Route 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows<a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x867534384\/Bombardier-wins-153-million-order\"> on the heels of an announcement by Bombardier<\/a> that the company won a new $154 million contract to build transit rail cars.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The order will help sustain 60 jobs for another six months at the  Plattsburgh manufacturing plant, said Bombardier spokeswoman Maryanne  Roberts on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The order for the MultiLevel cars comes from the Maryland Transit  Authority, which will replace old cars and add 16 to its commuter rail  fleet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what do you think?\u00a0 Are things looking robust jobs-wise in Plattsburgh?\u00a0 Do you think the recession is slowly winding to a close?\u00a0 Comments welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last week, the Plattsburgh Press Republican has run a couple of stories pointing [&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":[4839,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018"}],"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=5018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5019,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5018\/revisions\/5019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}