{"id":738,"date":"2016-12-20T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverlifepgh.org\/?p=738"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:49:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T19:49:19","slug":"listen-now-can-recreation-help-revitalize-small-towns-ohio-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/2016\/12\/20\/listen-now-can-recreation-help-revitalize-small-towns-ohio-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen now: Can Recreation Help Revitalize Small Towns on the Ohio River?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riverlife&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/riverlifepgh.org\/about-us\/nina-chase\/\">Nina Chase<\/a> talks to West Virginia Public Radio via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleghenyfront.org\/can-the-recreation-economy-help-revitalize-small-towns-on-the-ohio-river\/\"><em>The Allegheny Front<\/em><\/a> about how building riverfront public open space and amenities for recreation can have a significant economic impact on river towns.<\/p>\n<p>From the story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The decline of industry was devastating to the region\u2019s economy\u00a0&#8230; [O]ne positive side effect is that more people hang out on the river here. That\u2019s true in Pittsburgh, too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We\u2019ve been working to make the river an exciting cultural place for the city,&#8217; says urban designer Nina Chase, who works with a nonprofit called Riverlife. Her organization has overseen the development of a system of parks and trails along Pittsburgh\u2019s riverfronts. With a price tag of $130 million, it hasn\u2019t been cheap. But Chase says it was a wise investment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That $130 million in investment has actually triggered $4.1 billion in investment in riverfront and adjacent riverfront development projects downtown.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleghenyfront.org\/can-the-recreation-economy-help-revitalize-small-towns-on-the-ohio-river\/\">Listen to\u00a0the full piece,\u00a0&#8220;Can the Recreation Economy Help Revitalize Small Towns on the Ohio River?&#8221; by Glynis Board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverlife&#8217;s Nina Chase talks to West Virginia Public Radio via The Allegheny Front about how building riverfront public open space and amenities for recreation can have a significant economic impact on river towns. From the story: &#8220;The decline of industry was devastating to the region\u2019s economy\u00a0&#8230; [O]ne positive side effect is that more people hang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","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\/738","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=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucid-heisenberg.31-170-165-113.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}