{"id":8071,"date":"2018-02-23T19:41:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2018-02-23T19:41:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T19:41:58","slug":"amphitheater-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8071","title":{"rendered":"Amphitheater Under Construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018.02.07-UPDATED_Isla_Blanca_Groundbreaking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8061\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018.02.07-UPDATED_Isla_Blanca_Groundbreaking.jpg\" alt=\"2018.02.07-UPDATED_Isla_Blanca_Groundbreaking\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018.02.07-UPDATED_Isla_Blanca_Groundbreaking.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018.02.07-UPDATED_Isla_Blanca_Groundbreaking-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2018.02.07-UPDATED_Isla_Blanca_Groundbreaking-405x244.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Construction of a new venue for indoor and outdoor events has begun on South Padre Island and it will provide a place for multiple activities such as concerts, receptions, school programs as well as viewing for fireworks and rocket launches for Space X.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A groundbreaking was held Wednesday, Feb. 7 on the site of the project on the south side of Cameron County-owned Isla Blanca Park known as Dolphin Cove.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Joe Vega, the park director, said the complex includes two indoor rooms, and an amphitheater to accommodate up to 4,000 spectators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe are really excited about this new venue,\u201d he said. \u201cwhich will provide all sorts of opportunities to people from all over the Rio Grande Valley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said the $6.8 million project is being constructed from money collected from hotel-motel and rental motor vehicle taxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Construction of the multipurpose facility is expected to last anywhere from seven to nine months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Construction of a new venue for indoor and outdoor events has begun on South Padre Island and it will provide a place for multiple activities such as concerts, receptions, school programs as well as viewing for fireworks and rocket launches for Space X. A groundbreaking was held Wednesday, Feb. 7 on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8072,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/8072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}