{"id":368,"date":"2011-04-15T17:03:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=368"},"modified":"2011-04-15T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T17:03:30","slug":"100-million-milestone-for-old-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=368","title":{"rendered":"$100 Million Milestone for Old Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winchester&#8217;s downtown was recently recognized by the Main Street program as the first in Virginia to reach $100 million in private investments. The watershed project, as cited by Karen Helm, executive director for the Old Town Development Board, was the Feltner Building at 9 Court Square in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though less than $12 million total (without adjustments for inflation) had been invested downtown in the previous decade, then-President Wilbur M. Feltner got the bank to invest $2.5 million to renovate the building.<br \/>\n. . . .<br \/>\n&#8220;After a successful completed project,&#8221; Helm said, &#8220;there&#8217;s more of a sense of security that if somebody comes and makes an investment down here, they&#8217;ll get a return on their investment. I don&#8217;t think anybody likes to be the first to have confidence in an aging downtown, but Mr. Feltner did.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article by Vic Bradshaw in the Winchester Star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winchesterstar.com\/articles\/view\/city_recognized_by_main_street_program_becoming_1st_in_va_to_reach_100_million_in_private_investments\">here<\/a> (login required).<\/p>\n<p>Find Old Town on Facebook at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Old-Town-Winchester-VA\/101412546584079\">www.facebook.com\/pages\/Old-Town-Winchester-VA\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=368\" show_faces=\"false\" width=\"450\" font=\"\"><\/fb:like><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winchester&#8217;s downtown was recently recognized by the Main Street program as the first in Virginia to reach $100 million in private investments. The watershed project, as cited by Karen Helm, executive director for the Old Town Development Board, was the Feltner Building at 9 Court Square in the mid-1990s. Though less than $12 million total &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/?p=368\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">$100 Million Milestone for Old Town<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winchester-historic-district","tag-winchester-historic-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phwi.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}