From the Niagara Falls Review:
Grand Niagara golf course got city approval to expand its resort, but still needs to overcome opposition from its Grassy Brook Road neighbours to get the road closures a resort representative says it needs.
“That’s the talk of the town where we live,” said Denis Boulet, summing up the rural residents’ concerns about the golf resort’s expansion plans.
Grand Niagara opened its Rhys Jones-designed course last year south of the Welland River and north of Biggar Road. The company also has plans for another course, a hotel and a “lifestyle residential community” of townhouse condominiums.
They had asked city council for zoning and official plan amendments needed to expand onto 22 hectares west of Morris Road and eight hectares north of Grassy Brook Road. They also want to add a 220-unit residential area.
On a recorded vote, council voted 8-1 in favour of the zoning and official plan amendments. Ald. Janice Wing voted against them.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
After 33 years of dormancy, there is new activity behind the columns of the Toronto Power Generating Station.
But the stately building that sits above the falls won’t be used to generate electricity. It is being dismantled 100 years after it was built.
In May, around 50 workers began removing the machinery inside. They are expected to clear out the plant, but leave the building intact by January of next year, said Rick Everdell, director of project management for the hydroelectric division of the Ontario Power Generation.
OPG will turn over building to the Niagara Parks Commission when the work is completed. The commission will then assess the building before its future is decided, said Marika Kozachenko, who is managing the commission’s takeover of the power station.
Regular visitor Dan linked to this article in a comment to a previous post…
From the Toronto Star:
Okay, everybody, repeat after me: “What happens in Niagara Falls stays in Niagara Falls.”
Doesn’t have quite the same zing as the original? Well, get used to it, because our city of the whirling waters is definitely trying to position itself as a smaller, wetter version of Las Vegas … especially in the area of entertainment.
And considering the way the tourist business is going in North America, it’s a necessary move.
Conventional vacation destinations are all suffering a decline in attendance. From Yellowstone Park to Disney World, the numbers are way, way down over the past few years.
Even a local Ontario icon like the Maid of the Mist is reportedly taking in 40 per cent fewer customers than it did not that long ago.
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