{"id":298938,"date":"2026-06-07T05:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T05:08:07","slug":"construction-begins-on-florida-theater-preservation-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/298938\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction begins on Florida Theater preservation project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Construction is starting on a historical preservation project at the Florida Theater in Gainesville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Company leaders posted photos of railings around the building this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The downtown venue originally opened in 1928 but hasn\u2019t been open for several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Last year, city commissioners agreed to spend $40,000 to preserve the historic property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; Construction is starting on a historical preservation project at the Florida Theater in Gainesville.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[125728,8447,125727,28,30,29,125726,12585],"class_list":["post-298938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-1928-theater","tag-city-commissioners","tag-downtown-gainesville","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-theater-gainesville","tag-historic-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}