{"id":295483,"date":"2019-03-14T06:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=295483"},"modified":"2019-03-14T06:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T20:06:17","slug":"mva-may-soon-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-may-soon-move\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA may soon move"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_295486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295486\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MVA-pix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/MVA-pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-295486\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marianas Visitors  Authority board of directors chair Marian Aldan-Pierce presides over a meeting last Tuesday, during which MVA managing director Christopher Attao Concepcion announced that a piece of land in Garapan has been secured for a future MVA building. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority may soon have its own permanent building after it secured a property on the grounds of the CNMI Museum of History and Culture in Garapan.<\/p>\n<p>MVA managing director Christopher Attao Concepcion disclosed during the MVA board meeting last Tuesday that the CNMI Museum board of governors voted last Friday to give MVA a portion of its 8,867-square-meter lot where the MVA could build a permanent site.<\/p>\n<p>With the granting of title to the property, a memorandum of understanding is needed to be signed between MVA and the CNMI Museum, said Concepcion, who is also chairman of the museum board.<\/p>\n<p>He said the property is large and MVA only needs a small portion for its future building. <\/p>\n<p>Concepcion said they\u2019re working with an in-house architect to come up with a design that would complement with the building that\u2019s already there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure that requires a certain land survey so we can draw our borders and put or assign a lot number and things like that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Concepcion said the MVA has had no permanent home for 43 years now. MVA currently leases an office building in San Jose\/Oleai.<\/p>\n<p>MVA board director Cinta Kaipat underscored the need to build a permanent structure for MVA with a design that will reflect the CNMI\u2019s culture. <\/p>\n<p>Concepcion agreed, saying that is the plan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marianas Visitors Authority may soon have its own permanent building after it secured a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":295486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-295483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295483","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}