It looks like they are done raising the roof at the old Pilgrim Restaurant. I would think that sometime over the next couple of weeks it will really start to take shape. Has anyone seen anything official that this is going to be an East Side Mario’s?
The painting is done and the signs are up at Cantina Charlies. Apparently they are aiming to open April 18. The colours may not look that great during the day, but I’m sure it will really stand out at night. I’ve contacted a couple of different people from Cantina Charlies so I can ask some…
As I mentioned, the new Build-A-Bear Workshop on Victoria Avenue is open, but there is still lots of work to be done on the exterior.
From Niagara This Week: South-end industries on Stanley Avenue are concerned about what may happen to the business in the future when people start moving into more than 3,000 new dwellings near the Thundering Waters golf and residential development. Council rezoned about 252 acres of land east of Dorchester Road and north of Chippawa Parkway…
From Niagara This Week: A bid to have high-wire walker Jay Cochrane back in Niagara Falls walking over Clifton Hill this summer seems like it won’t be getting off the ground. Cochrane, who was in the Falls last summer for daily tightrope walks near the Skylon Tower, was hoping to return to Niagara Falls this…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara residents are urged to step up and fight cancer this weekend for the 17th annual Stair Climb for Cancer at the Skylon Tower. The event will take place Saturday from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m.
From the Niagara Falls Review: Terrorism kills tourism. But it doesn’t have to, New York State congresswoman Louise Slaughter said in response to Canada’s secretary of state for small business and tourism assertion that the country’s tourism woes are a direct result of the tight border. Tourism industry insiders have to continue to accentuate the…
From the Niagara Falls Review: I was pumped. Walking into the brand new Niagara Freefall and Interactive Centre on Stanley Avenue, a handful of people were having a blast flying through a vertical wind tunnel courtesy of a powerful propeller at the base of the structure. Awesome, I thought. If they can do it, why…
From the Buffalo News: A glass enclosed walkway just outside Conference Center Niagara Falls is marked by graffiti and littered with cigarette butts. City trash bins outside Niagara Falls State Park overflow on busy summer weekends. And flowers planted along John B. Daly Boulevard last summer were mowed down with the weeds. Members of a…
I’m on vacation this week, so I haven’t been in the tourist area much, and I haven’t been paying much attention to the news, so the last couple of days have been slow and it will continue through Monday. By then posting should be back to normal (approximately 3 posts a day).