{"id":416942,"date":"2026-08-26T05:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416942\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:40:13","slug":"lubbock-city-council-creates-financing-zone-for-civic-center-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/416942\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock City Council creates financing zone for civic center project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The City Council has set up a new way for the city to pay for expansion of the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s through what\u2019s known as a project financing zone. It establishes a 3-mile boundary around the civic center. The city will be able to utilize hotel occupancy tax revenue within that boundary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For the next 30 years, revenue collected in increments based on this year can go toward the effort to expand, renovate and improve the civic center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The project will have to start within the next five years in order to benefit from the financing zone.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The City Council has set up a new way for the city to pay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-416942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}