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Daily Archive for May 12th, 2008
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Regional chairman Peter Partington said this week that Niagara, despite a number of challenges, is on the right track.
“I’m bullish about the future of Niagara,” Partington said during his State of Niagara address this week in Thorold.
As the top municipal politician in Niagara, it’s part of Partington’s job to maintain a positive outlook; but in painting a rosy picture of the future, there was little in Partington’s speech that was fanciful.
There does seem to be a newfound optimism hanging around Niagara of late.
From the Niagara Falls Review:
One of the best-known and oldest business names in Niagara Falls is no more.
For all the nearly eight decades of its life, the landmark hotel on Falls Avenue directly across from the Rainbow Bridge has had “Brock” as part of its name. Now, as a new member of the Intercontinental Hotels Group, it has been rechristened the Crowne Plaza Fallsview.
Not only has this hotel hosted generations of visitors, but local residents, especially from the 1930s to the ’60s, used it for a wide variety of social functions. If it was happening at ‘the Brock,’ you knew it going to be especially exciting!
From the Niagara Falls Review:
Half a people mover might be better than none.
After 10 years of trying to develop a mass-transit system to shuttle people through the busiest tourist areas, city council will consider going ahead with the just the top portion of what was originally to be a 10-kilometre loop between Bender Street and Marineland.
A report going to tonight’s community services committee meeting recommends a “phased approach” to the people mover project.
It suggests the city focus on building the section along the top of the escarpment first, from Clifton Hill to the Rapidsview parking area.
“Although a fully looped system is the preferred approach by all partners in the project, it is generally concluded … that a fully looped system is a longer-term goal for the project,” the report by city chief administrative officer John MacDonald states.
If council accepts the report, the city will move ahead without the Niagara Parks Commission as a partner.
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