{"id":200162,"date":"2026-05-22T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200162\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:03:08","slug":"erie-events-weighs-in-on-councils-market-house-decision-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200162\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie Events weighs in on council&#8217;s market house decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Erie City Council said the city needs to focus on residents, but Erie Events said that\u2019s exactly what its proposed market house project was designed to do.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders with Erie Events said they were left confused by council\u2019s decision, arguing their right to build on the site with council\u2019s conditions on the project.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\/news\/local-news\/rejected-bayfront-market-house-request-highlights-divions-in-city-council\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tRejected Bayfront Market House request highlights divisions in city council\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the vision for the Bayfront Market House includes a family-friendly space focused on local Erie businesses and products, along with a casual restaurant concept and activities designed to attract people.<\/p>\n<p>They explained that the goal has always been creating a space centered on the Erie community.<\/p>\n<p>Gus Pine, executive director of Erie Events said, \u201cResidents in 16501 want the same thing that all of us want. They want to go somewhere after work and grab a beer with a friend. They want to go somewhere with their family and enjoy two hours at a venue where you can entertain your family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pine said an appeal is not currently on the table, and they are now awaiting city council\u2019s required written explanation for the denial and hoping council may reconsider the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Erie City Council said the city needs to focus on residents, but Erie Events said that\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-200162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}