{"id":35049,"date":"2013-04-25T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35049"},"modified":"2013-04-25T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:22:30","slug":"hedge-fund-billionaire-pledges-4-million-for-colorado-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2013\/hedge-fund-billionaire-pledges-4-million-for-colorado-highway.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund billionaire pledges $4 million for Colorado highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post &#8211;  A project to expand State Highway 9, which runs north through Grand and Summit counties, received a $4 million matching grant from the owner of Blue Valley Ranch. The announcement came during Tuesday&#8217;s meeting of the Grand County Board of Commissioners, who all voiced their support for the project.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Valley Ranch, located outside of Kremmling, is owned by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul T. Jones II of Greenwich, Conn. Jones previously donated $945,000 to kickstart the improvement project.<\/p>\n<p>Total cost of the Highway 9 project is estimated by CDOT to be $46 million, which means the local match for the improvements would be approximately $9 million. With Blue Valley Ranch&#8217;s existing $945,000 donation and the $4 million matching grant, $4.3 million is needed to meet that goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_23097491\/hedge-fund-billionaire-pledges-4-million-colorado-highway\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Post &#8211; A project to expand State Highway 9, which runs north through Grand and Summit counties, received a $4 million matching grant from the owner of Blue Valley Ranch. The announcement came during Tuesday&#8217;s meeting of the Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35055,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35049\/revisions\/35055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}