From the Niagara Falls Review:
Hoteliers Victor and Carmen Menechella will be allowed to build one of the Fallsview area’s densest hotels despite the objections of the city’s planning department and its next-door neighbour.
“As it sits here, I think it’s not a bad idea. It’s a smart idea and it fits nicely,” Coun. Jim Diodati said moments before councillors voted 5-2 Monday to give the Menechellas the green light to build a new Hampton Inn at 6505 Fallsview Blvd. They also own the nearby Embassy Suites hotel.
City council gave them the green light to build a 30-storey, 383-room hotel, north of Dixon Street on a site that’s less than a half-acre.
Previous zoning would have allowed only a four-storey structure.
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This will be an interesting development. I would rather see the Niagara 21st group diversify from the hotels though. Where exactly is this site on Fallsview? What is there now?, I’m drawing a blank. Furthermore, does anyone know the group who has development plans to the south?
I forgot to mention that 500 jobs for this size hotel?? Someone doesn’t have their stats correct. I can’t imagine them even having half that number when fully operational. Money talks with Niagara developers.
Google Maps puts that more-or-less where the Renaissance is, across the street from the Casino parking garage. I can’t quite tell where the lot actually is though, it looks pretty tight.
It’d be nice if one of the new hotels that eventually goes up around the Falls area has a “vegas” feeling, where it actually has some sort of theme.
Although I’m happy with this… because there hasn’t been a new large-scale hotel opening in awhile, it’d be interesting if they (developers) took the next step and decided to have a ‘themed’ hotel, which would basically start drawing the tourists to stay there, because every hotel going up feels like another variation of Vanilla… about time somebody puts in a chocolate sherbert flavored hotel.
Yeah, its all chain hotels. The area is missing a theme hotel.
Dan, it’s on a small portion of the triangle bordered by Fallsview Blvd, Main St. and Dixon St., across from the Oakes Hotel. There is a buffet restaurant on the corner of Main and Dixon, that this hotel will wrap around.
It’s about time that the city of Niagara Falls will let developers do what they can do best, develop the area to accomodate growing populatio and do it in style. Victor done some of the best developments in the city and now is ready to do more. Bravo.