{"id":878,"date":"2008-01-11T16:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/?p=878"},"modified":"2018-06-29T09:27:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T14:27:20","slug":"bemidji-state-signs-events-center-agreement-with-city-of-bemidji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/2008\/01\/11\/bemidji-state-signs-events-center-agreement-with-city-of-bemidji\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji State signs events center agreement with city of Bemidji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BEMIDJI, Minn.<\/strong> &ndash; During a work session on Thursday, Jan. 10, 91̽»¨ President Dr. Jon E Quistgaard signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Bemidji, securing the University&rsquo;s status as the anchor tenant of a proposed Bemidji regional events and convention center.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandum of understanding provides BSU with the opportunity to move the home games for its men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s NCAA Division I ice hockey programs from their current on-campus home, the John Glas Fieldhouse, into this new facility.<\/p>\n<p>The arena is proposed to have a seating capacity of 4,000 for ice hockey contests, with 25 private suites and a 252-seat club level with lounge.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Signing this agreement was in the best interest of the city and the best interest of the University,&rdquo; Quistgaard said.<\/p>\n<p>The BSU men&rsquo;s hockey team is a member of College Hockey America, while the women&rsquo;s team competes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association women&rsquo;s league, where it was a charter member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEMIDJI, Minn. &ndash; During a work session on Thursday, Jan. 10, 91̽»¨ President Dr. Jon E Quistgaard signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Bemidji, securing the University&rsquo;s status as the anchor tenant of a proposed Bemidji regional events and convention center. The memorandum of understanding provides BSU with the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000s","category-bsu-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}