{"id":680,"date":"2016-09-09T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverlifepgh.org\/?p=680"},"modified":"2016-09-09T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T16:08:12","slug":"boston-globe-profiles-riverlife-president-vivien-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/2016\/09\/09\/boston-globe-profiles-riverlife-president-vivien-li\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boston Globe profiles Riverlife president Vivien Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Shirly Leung, The Boston Globe<br \/>\nSeptember 9, 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>PITTSBURGH<\/strong> \u2014 On my first trip to this Rust Belt city in the midst of a renaissance, Vivien Li can\u2019t wait to show me something.<\/p>\n<p>We arrive at a mound of gravel and dirt by the Allegheny River. I don\u2019t get it. She left Boston for this?<\/p>\n<p>It has been almost a year since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/07\/21\/vivien-longtime-harbor-advocate-leaving-boston\/D4bMOi67cg9HCJKhvvDblN\/story.html\">Li stepped down<\/a> as the head of the Boston Harbor Association, where over a quarter century she emerged as the city\u2019s most powerful waterfront advocate. With our downtown waterfront all but spoken for, Li was lured by the work still to be done in this former steel town that sits at the confluence of the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela rivers.<\/p>\n<p>The city sits at the confluence of the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela rivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPittsburgh, it\u2019s probably what Boston was, like, five, eight years ago,\u201d said Li, 62, the chief executive ofRiverlife, a nonprofit that restores and promotes the riverfront. \u201cThat\u2019s what made the job particularly exciting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She took me to this section of town known as the Strip District because it reminded her most of the South Boston Waterfront.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.riverlifepgh.org\/news-events\/in_pittsburgh_vivien_li_gets_a_second_shot_at_the_waterfront\/\">Continue reading on The Boston Globe website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shirly Leung, The Boston Globe September 9, 2016 PITTSBURGH \u2014 On my first trip to this Rust Belt city in the midst of a renaissance, Vivien Li can\u2019t wait to show me something. We arrive at a mound of gravel and dirt by the Allegheny River. I don\u2019t get it. She left Boston for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}