From Niagara This Week:
Regional councillors have given approval in principle to a plan to lease a 20-acre parcel of land to the City of Niagara Falls to provide parking for the proposed Niagara Convention and Civic Centre.
The decision was made during regional council’s meeting Thursday evening, following a presentation by Dragan Matovic, the convention centre’s project director, and Brian Stanford, of PKF Consulting, the firm engaged to perform a feasibility study on the convention centre proposal.
They urged regional councillors to see the lease of the property, located between Stanley Avenue and Ailanthus Avenue, as the region’s contribution to a project that will benefit all of Niagara’s citizens, not just the residents of Niagara Falls.