{"id":41513,"date":"2019-07-19T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/former-mayor-white-gets-a-star\/"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T22:26:08","slug":"former-mayor-white-gets-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/former-mayor-white-gets-a-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Mayor White gets a star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Kent Mayor Jim White received a star Thursday on the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/MxTRvzr1UMT8URGL6\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"map\">Kent Station plaza<\/a> outside of the AMC theatre for his role to bring the shopping center to downtown 14 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>White served as mayor from 1994 through 2005. The City Council voted 4-3 in 2004 to sell the city-owned property to Tarragon. A few council members were opposed because the city sold the property to the developer for a lower price than what the city had paid for it a few years earlier. White helped lead negotiations to buy the property from Borden Chemical.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The star is a celebration of Mayor Jim White&rsquo;s tireless work in bringing Kent Station to our downtown,&rdquo; Kent Mayor Dana Ralph said in her weekly newsletter. &ldquo;He was instrumental in making this happen. His vision to create a wonderful gathering place for the community to enjoy for generations to come has been recognized.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kent Station opened in late 2005 and has become a popular gathering spot for shopping, dining, entertainment and personal and professional services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For role in bringing Kent Station shopping center to downtown <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":41514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-41513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41513"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}