{"id":2806,"date":"2010-10-05T09:46:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2010-10-05T09:46:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T13:46:25","slug":"arawak-cay-cultural-village-plan-proposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/arawak-cay-cultural-village-plan-proposed","title":{"rendered":"Arawak Cay Cultural Village Plan Proposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bahamian investor group proposing an $80 million Cultural Village project at  Arawak Cay is expected to present a &#8220;masterplan and financing&#8221; to the Government  within &#8220;the next few days&#8221;, the minister of tourism and aviation told Tribune  Business yesterday, with numerous other investors having also expressed interest  in the site.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace said Gerald Strachan, president  and chief executive of Cultural Village (Bahamas), and his fellow investors were  readying to submit their concept and accompanying materials to the Government  for its review.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Strachan last year said the Cultural Village, which would be situated on  30-35 acres of land at Arawak Cay, could create some 500 jobs during phase one  construction and 150-200 full-time jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plan is to give Bahamians 51 per cent ownership, and the Cultural Village could include a 4-D theatre, a clock tower topped by an enormous conch shell and pirate ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[24,104],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-construction","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}