{"id":344682,"date":"2021-05-21T06:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=344682"},"modified":"2021-05-21T06:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:05:23","slug":"mva-to-stay-at-site-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mva-to-stay-at-site-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"MVA to stay at site\u2014for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mariana Visitors Authority\u2019s office will remain at its current location along Beach Road in San Jose even after its long-term lease contract expired early this month. MVA\u2019s current lease agreement is with Pacific International Marianas, represented by Ty Izuka, and they remain in the premises under legal authority until owners of the current property says otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>At the MVA special board meeting last Wednesday, MVA managing director Priscilla Iakopo said she received an email from lawyer Robert T. Torres, who represents one of the owners of the property, and mentioned that he is still finalizing the special power of attorney and as long as there are no updates on that, the lease of MVA remains \u201cin status quo.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat this means is they are extending the lease of Ty Izuka of Pacific International Marianas for another month,\u201d Iakopo said. \u201cThis also means that they are having Ty continue to manage the property and so we will continue to pay him for the rent. \u2026We did actually receive a letter from Ty indicating that he will continue managing the property, including our payments\u2026until May 31st. \u2026He also said that this will continue until the special power of attorney as mentioned by attorney Torres has been finalized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the search for a new MVA office is still ongoing, led by board director Chris Nelson. \u201cThere are a number of sites that we have looked at. \u2026 The good news is there are a lot of potential sites but currently, no decision is being made as we are still in the exploratory stage,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>MVA\u2019s current office space is a part of an expiring long-term lease between the Pangelinan estate and Pacific International Marianas. MVA\u2019s original lease was arranged more than 30 years ago and expired early this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mariana Visitors Authority\u2019s office will remain at its current location along Beach Road in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":336910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-344682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-mva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344682","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}