{"id":15223796,"date":"2026-07-24T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/letters-downtown-construction-mayhem-at-historic-levels\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:33:31","slug":"letters-downtown-construction-mayhem-at-historic-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/letters-downtown-construction-mayhem-at-historic-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Downtown construction mayhem at historic levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching a story about the numerous downtown restaurants closing due to construction is not surprising, considering the sheer volume of construction projects happening simultaneously. Having recently cycled downtown, I had to deal with detour after detour in all directions, thinking the magnitude of all the construction will clearly be the destruction of many businesses. A retired commercial real estate friend said he has never seen it so bad, and our council needs to be held accountable. Sue! <a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonsun.com\/opinion\/letters\/letters-downtown-construction-mayhem-at-historic-levels?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=truncated_content&amp;utm_content=opinion_letters&amp;utm_term=edmonton_sun\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"inmi-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/edmontonsun.com\/opinion\/letters\/letters-downtown-construction-mayhem-at-historic-levels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Edmonton Sun<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSTRUCTION MAZE Watching a story about the numerous downtown restaurants closing due to construction is not surprising, considering the sheer volume of construction projects happening simultaneously. Having recently cycled downtown, I had to deal with detour after detour in all\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15223798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15223796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edmonton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021.webp",1200,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-300x225.webp",300,225,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-620x465.webp",620,465,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-768x576.webp",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-940x705.webp",940,705,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021.webp",1200,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021.webp",1200,900,false],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-998x665.webp",998,665,true],"ignition_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-670x446.webp",670,446,true],"ignition_item_lg":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-1200x894.webp",1200,894,true],"ignition_article_media":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-510x510.webp",510,510,true],"ignition_minicart_item":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-160x160.webp",160,160,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-24x24.webp",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-48x48.webp",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-96x96.webp",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/15223796-20260720db031.ej_304384021-300x300.webp",300,300,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"news.iNthacity","author_link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/author\/atombo\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/articles\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Edmonton<\/a>","tag_info":"Edmonton","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15223796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15223797,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15223796\/revisions\/15223797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15223798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15223796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15223796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15223796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}