From the Niagara Falls Review:
The $100-million convention centre dream is finally underway.
Though work has already begun on the site of the new Niagara Convention and Civic Centre, plenty of dignitaries made it official Friday with a groundbreaking ceremony.
To kickstart what Mayor Ted Salci calls the “unconventional convention centre,” the first official clients were flown in by helicopter to sign their contracts.
Both the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the Canadian Tire Dealers Association will hold major events here shortly after the centre opens for business, expected to be in the spring of 2011.