{"id":238814,"date":"2016-10-20T06:06:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=238814"},"modified":"2016-10-20T06:06:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T20:06:43","slug":"san-nicolas-pushes-conversion-old-japanese-building-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/san-nicolas-pushes-conversion-old-japanese-building-office\/","title":{"rendered":"San Nicolas pushes conversion of old Japanese building into office"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_238816\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238816\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/San-Nicolas-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-238816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/San-Nicolas-pix-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"The old Japanese building located near the San Jose Church is being proposed as the new Mayor\u2019s Office. (Contributed Photos)\" width=\"227\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-238816\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238816\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old Japanese building located near the San Jose Church is being proposed as the new Mayor\u2019s Office. (Contributed Photos)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tinian Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas and the island\u2019s leadership have ongoing discussions relating plans to proceed with a project that will convert the old Japanese building on Tinian into the future Tinian Mayor\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The old Japanese building was once used to house government departments such as the Tinian Department of Lands and Natural Resources and Historic Preservation Office. With the idea of consolidating the local government agencies into a \u201cone-stop\u201d location, San Nicolas and the Tinian leadership are hopeful that this plan will move forward in a timely manner. <\/p>\n<p>This essentially will result in a savings for the municipality such as office space rentals. The estimated cost of the project is $860,000 and a \u201cdesign build\u201d approach is being explored. <\/p>\n<p>With a \u201cdesign build\u201d approach, the municipality will receive a faster delivery on the project, cost savings, better quality, decreased administrative burden, reduced risk for the municipality, and reduced litigation claims. <\/p>\n<p>With this project alongside current and future projects on Tinian, San Nicolas and the Tinian leadership hopes to continue the aggressive work to move Tinian forward. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tinian Mayor Joey P. San Nicolas and the island\u2019s leadership have ongoing discussions relating plans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":238816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4007,9467,4089,1339],"class_list":["post-238814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-historic-preservation-office","tag-natural-resources","tag-san-jose-church","tag-san-nicolas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}