From the Buffalo News:
The city will chip in $650,000 of its casino revenue toward a project to renovate a high-rise hotel on the Niagara River.
Directors of the city’s NFC Development Corp. on Monday unanimously approved a $650,000 grant for a project by hotelier Faisal Merani to reopen the former Inn on the River at 7001 Buffalo Ave. as a hotel with a triple diamond rating.
Just points out again the vast differences between the two sides. In Niagara Falls, ON, prospective hotel builders pay the city huge development fees in order to do their projects. In Niagara Falls, NY, the city is paying the developers to build.