{"id":1367,"date":"2012-05-21T21:06:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2012-05-21T21:06:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T21:06:11","slug":"downtown-revitilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"downtown revitilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times<\/em> carried a piece on Chester, Vermont, recently.\u00a0 This small quaint town, like a number of\u00a0small quaint towns\u00a0in Vermont, is fighting a “Dollar Store” going in — because they’re worried about changing the character of the town.\u00a0 Our travels have taken us to Brattleboro, Vermont, and Plattville, Wisconsin, both small towns that have robustly undertaken downtown revitilization projects.\u00a0 (Plattville even has ongoing forums to educate the public about why it’s important to shop locally and support the local “Mom & Pop” businesses.)\u00a0 In addition, some of the store owners in Plattville have moved into apartments above their shops so Main St., in essence, has become their “front yard.”\u00a0 This makes them even that much more invested in fixing up the downtown.\u00a0 It’s a throw back to the “old days,” when a lot of storeowners lived above their shops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The New York Times carried a piece on Chester, Vermont, recently.\u00a0 This small quaint town, like a number of\u00a0small quaint towns\u00a0in Vermont, is fighting a “Dollar Store” going in — because they’re worried about changing the character of the town.\u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1368,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/1368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}