{"id":9623,"date":"2012-01-06T11:16:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=9623"},"modified":"2012-01-06T11:16:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T18:16:18","slug":"city-journal-convention-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=9623","title":{"rendered":"City Journal | Convention Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iStock_000013086090XSmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9625\" title=\"iStock_000013086090XSmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iStock_000013086090XSmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iStock_000013086090XSmall.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iStock_000013086090XSmall-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/iStock_000013086090XSmall-400x265.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For two decades, American cities have used public dollars to build convention center space\u2014far more than demand warranted. The result has been a gigantic nationwide surplus of empty meeting facilities, struggling convention centers, and vacant hotel rooms. Given the glut, you\u2019d think that cities would stop. Instead, many are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand convention centers and open yet more dazzling hotels, arguing that whatever convention business remains will flow to the places with the fanciest amenities. If this dubious rationale proves wrong and the facilities fail\u2014it\u2019s telling that the private sector won\u2019t build them on its own\u2014taxpayers will wind up on the hook, as usual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at City Journal:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2012\/22_1_snd-convention-centers.html\">Convention Wisdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For two decades, American cities have used public dollars to build convention center space\u2014far more than demand warranted. The result has been a gigantic nationwide surplus of empty meeting facilities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[558,556,557,559],"class_list":["post-9623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-conference","tag-convention-center","tag-meeting-space","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9629,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9623\/revisions\/9629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}