{"id":5367,"date":"2012-01-18T06:36:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5367"},"modified":"2012-01-18T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:28:26","slug":"morning-read-a-tough-sell-for-big-tupper-resort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/18\/morning-read-a-tough-sell-for-big-tupper-resort\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  A tough sell for Big Tupper resort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Adirondack Park Agency takes up deliberations this morning on the Adirondack Club and Resort project, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/528783\/ACR-could-be-a-tough-sale--despite-real-estate-upswing.html?nav=5008\">Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> is reporting that many regional real estate experts remain skeptical about the development.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lake Placid-based real estate broker Margie Philo told the Enterprise  she thinks there&#8217;s a viable second-home market in Saranac Lake and Lake  Placid, but that&#8217;s not necessarily the case in Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally,  I think they&#8217;re going to have a lot of trouble and it&#8217;s going to be  very slow going at the prices I hear quoted, if that in fact is true,  for second homes off of the water in a community that is quite quiet  during really nine months of the year and doesn&#8217;t have the  infrastructure &#8211; restaurants, venues and things people enjoy in Saranac  Lake and Lake Placid,&#8221; Philo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it will get better as the  market improves, but I wouldn&#8217;t buy a ticket on that one.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In my reporting, I&#8217;ve found that widespread skepticism remains &#8212; even among some pro-development folks &#8212; over the business model for the resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Adirondack Park Agency takes up deliberations this morning on the Adirondack Club and [&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":[5693,22,5583,10,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367"}],"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=5367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5368,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5367\/revisions\/5368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}