The Clifton Hill contruction site where HOCO is building a Tim Hortons and a new retail store seems to be coming along well:
On the street lights along Falls Avenue are banners touting the new Fallsview Waterpark (or Fallsview Indoor Waterpark as it’s called here) as North America’s Largest Hotel & Waterpark”
I would think that we’ll start seeing the SkyWheel rising up soon. It looks like all of the work has been done in the ground. There is some sort of a building that has been built which I assume will be a control room. It had dozens and dozens of conduits coming out of the [...]
A couple of weeks ago I reported that there had been a stop work order issued on the walkway heading to the new Fallsview Waterpark. The notice of public meeting signs are still up, and here’s how it described the application:
The relocation of a proposed elevated pedestrian walkway between Skyline Inn and the new waterpark [...]
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From Niagara This Week:
The lengthy process of creating a new People Mover system for the Falls, stalled for some time, has moved forward after proposal architects found solutions to key issues holding it back.
But the solutions are just good enough to get the project to what is known as the request for proposal (RFP) stage, [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Plans to create a new People Mover System received another boost Friday when Niagara Parks Commission members voted to move to the next phase in a mass transit system project.
The commission’s approval came off the heels of last Monday’s city council meeting, where its members voted to authorize a second round [...]
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Apparently Great Wolf Lodge will have its public soft opening this Thursday, March 30. A soft opening is when an operation gets to have their staff work in a semi-real environment. Although only guests of the lodge can use the waterpark, everyone is welcome to check out the place like restaurants/ spa/ arcade and shop. [...]
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Some artists you’re just happy to see. Some you feel privileged being in the same room with.
If there’s a level above that, B.B. King resides there.
The most imitated, influential blues guitarist in history is on his farewell tour, which made Friday’s first of two shows at the Niagara Fallsview Casino all [...]
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From CBC Arts:
The National Library and Archives in Ottawa has obtained the photograph collection of Canadian photojournalist Jock Carroll.
Carroll spent three decades travelling the world for news organizations like Maclean’s, Weekend Magazine, Colliers and Sports Illustrated. He died in 1995 at age 76.
During a long career, he put together a personal archive of more than [...]
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Apparently the name for the new waterpark is Fallsview Waterpark (not Atlantis):
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