In a comment on my previous post, Scott said the following:
I think that Intercontinental Hotels Group has finally abandonded their plans for a Crowne Plaza Hotel in Niagara Falls Canada, as it was recently announced that the Days Inn in Niagara Falls USA will be converted into a luxurious Crowne Plaza Hotel. I belive that simply Intercontinental and Crowne Plaza gave up on the Rudan Holding project and decided against a new build and would rather construct a hotel beside the hottest Casino (Seneca) in the Falls area right now. This leaves me with doubts that this hotel will ever be constructed due to the fact that their are much better parcels of land to build hotels on in the Niagara Falls area (Clifton Hill, Skylon Tower, and the Hoco Escarpment). So unfortunately like the Bay-Adelaide Centre in downtown Toronto I think folks from Niagara Falls will be seeing the half built stump of a hotel for a long time.
Just to clarify, the Buffalo News (the article isn’t available online anymore) reported that it is a Holiday Inn Select on Third Street that is being converted to the Crowne Plaza Hotel. The Niagara Gazette shares a little more:
New York State has also agreed to invest up to $7 million in a $22 million renovation project at the Holiday Inn Select at the corner of Third and Niagara streets in Niagara Falls to upgrade the hotel to a Crowne Plaza.
Whether this has anything to do with the problems at the Niagara Falls, Ontario site, I don’t know. But thanks for the good insights, Scott. Keep ’em coming!