{"id":23633,"date":"2014-08-26T20:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23633"},"modified":"2014-08-26T20:13:07","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T12:13:07","slug":"raptors-30-million-training-facility-approved-by-toronto-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/26\/raptors-30-million-training-facility-approved-by-toronto-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Raptors $30 million training facility approved by Toronto city council"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_23688\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23688\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-raptors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23688\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-raptors.jpg\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of Toronto Raptors Facebook page\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-raptors.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/toronto-raptors-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Toronto Raptors Facebook page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO &#8212; The Raptors&#8217; new training facility cleared its final hurdle Monday, receiving approval from Toronto city council.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Counc. Doug Ford were the lone two votes against the $30-million facility to be built at Exhibition Place.<\/p>\n<p>The opening of the 64,000 square-foot facility is set to coincide with the 2016 NBA all-star game in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., which owns the Raptors, will pay construction and operating costs and rent the facility for 20 years, starting at $205,000 annually.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will also be available for use by community groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; The Raptors&#8217; new training facility cleared its final hurdle Monday, receiving approval from Toronto city council. Mayor Rob &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,483,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-politics","category-sports","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}