{"id":18118,"date":"2012-02-16T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18118"},"modified":"2012-02-16T10:21:02","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T15:21:02","slug":"local-business-kicks-in-150k-for-pompey-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/local-business-kicks-in-150k-for-pompey-square","title":{"rendered":"Local Business Kicks in $150K for Pompey Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18119\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"pompey-museum\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pompey-museum-250x186.jpg\" alt=\"Pompey Museum\" width=\"250\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pompey-museum-250x186.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pompey-museum-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/pompey-museum.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Local  businesses are contributing to the restoration of Pompey Square and  mobile vendors will be permitted to set up shop once the development is  complete.<\/p>\n<p>This collaboration among members of the business community is being seen as crucial to creating downtown Nassau\u2019s new heart.<\/p>\n<p>More than $150,000 has been invested purely from contributions from  local businesses, according to Frank Comito, a board member of the  Downtown Nassau Partnership (DNP).\u00a0 Stakeholders are targeting a grand  opening before the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Site preparation should be completed by the end of next month, he added, at which point full-scale construction can begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe anticipate this phase to be completed by the end of March, at  which point we will move into vertical construction of public features,  restrooms and landscaping,\u201d he told Guardian Business.<\/p>\n<p>Site preparation work is being done by Gilley\u2019s Trucking and Heavy  Equipment.\u00a0 Caribbean Civil Engineering, Terran Design &amp; Management  and Jackson Burnside Limited have been contracted as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very near receiving bids for hardscapes and landscaping,\u201d  Comito continued, \u201call of which will be signed off by the first week of  March.\u00a0 It is hard to estimate the number of construction-related jobs  at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pompey Square, located on the site of the temporary straw market, has  been envisioned as an area where social events will meet  entrepreneurial pursuits.<\/p>\n<p>A stage will be incorporated to facilitate concerts and other public presentations, Comito said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than $150,000 has been invested purely from contributions from local businesses towards the restoration of Pompey Square, located on the site of the former temporary straw market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[153,24],"class_list":["post-18118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}