{"id":11689,"date":"2011-10-23T15:11:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=11689"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:19:05","slug":"news-analysis-dubai-investors-fall-for-niagara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-business\/news-analysis-dubai-investors-fall-for-niagara\/","title":{"rendered":"News Analysis: Dubai Investors Fall for Niagara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Niagara_Falls_Horseshoe_Falls.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11690\" title=\"Niagara_Falls_Horseshoe_Falls\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Niagara_Falls_Horseshoe_Falls-e1319356130599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Niagara_Falls_Horseshoe_Falls-e1319356130599.jpg 498w, https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Niagara_Falls_Horseshoe_Falls-e1319356130599-145x92.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><strong>What&#8217;s the story?\u00a0<\/strong> The Mayor of Niagara Falls is very excited about a potential strategic partnership with investors from Dubai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>But he&#8217;s not as excited as the unnamed investors are?<\/strong> No, according to Mayor Jim Diodati, &#8220;they&#8217;re licking their chops&#8221; at the number of investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How edifying.\u00a0 Any idea who these investors are?<\/strong> Nope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hmm. Any idea what is bringing on the collective salivation?<\/strong> Nope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So we&#8217;re left to speculate. What fun.\u00a0 Twinning with Hatta Pools?\u00a0 A possible replica in the Hajjar Mountains?<\/strong> All will become clear in the fullness of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>He was impressed then with the reception he received here?\u00a0<\/strong> &#8220;Everything they do, they do right. Everything they do is big. They have a can-do attitude. They don&#8217;t believe in mediocrity,&#8221; he said of Dubai. &#8220;We offered them a buffet table of opportunities in Niagara Falls, several of which they are interested in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Buffet table&#8221; eh? Mayor Diodati clearly knows the way to our hearts in this part of the world. What next?\u00a0<\/strong> A trip to the Falls themselves by the mysterious collective.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s hope the inevitable drenching on the boat trip doesn&#8217;t dim their ardour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS ANALYSIS: Dubai likes a buffet, big ideas, and anything with the title &#8220;largest in the world&#8221;. No wonder mysterious Dubai based investors are &#8216;salivating&#8217; over the Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,187,893],"tags":[197,18316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}