{"id":15387,"date":"2017-05-31T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15387"},"modified":"2017-05-31T07:08:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T11:08:08","slug":"it-costs-1-billion-to-move-a-town-of-18000-3-kilometers-to-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/it-costs-1-billion-to-move-a-town-of-18000-3-kilometers-to-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"It Costs $1 Billion To Move A Town Of 18,000 Three Kilometers To The Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/053117_1104_ItCosts1Bil1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Akshat Rathi brought a whole new meaning to &#8220;out of town&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kiruna is a Swedish city, founded in 1900, on the edge of an iron ore mine.<\/li>\n<li>As the state-owned mining company has dug deeper, the risk of the town falling into a sinkhole has increased.<\/li>\n<li>The company is now in the process of physically lifting and moving historic buildings in the town \u2013 determined through a public vote \u2013 3 kilometers (2 miles) to the east.<\/li>\n<li>People who live in buildings that aren&#8217;t being moved will have their properties purchased at 125% market value \u2013 or be offered a similarly sized house at the new location.<\/li>\n<li>All in all the move is expected to cost over a billion dollars, and require at least 20 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/991623\/a-swedish-mining-company-is-moving-the-entire-town-of-kiruna-with-18000-people-and-several-buildings-to-a-new-location\/\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akshat Rathi brought a whole new meaning to &#8220;out of town&#8221;: Kiruna is a Swedish city, founded in 1900, on the edge of an iron ore mine. As the state-owned mining company has dug deeper, the risk of the town falling into a sinkhole has increased. The company is now in the process of physically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/053117_1104_ItCosts1Bil1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15387"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15392,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions\/15392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}