Chef Anna Olson signs on to endorse Niagara Convention and Civic Centre

From the Niagara Falls Review: The Niagara Convention and Civic Centre has reached an agreement with Anna Olson, the Food Network Canada celebrity chef, to endorse the facility scheduled to open in two years. “This is an exciting moment for our centre. It states loud and clear that our food program is intended to be…

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Convention centre construction on target, city officials say

From the Niagara Falls Review: A building permit for the Niagara Convention and Civic Centre is expected to be issued in the next few weeks, as work continues toward the centre’s 2011 completion target. “It’s tracking on schedule. It’s tracking quite well. Everything is moving along quite nicely,” said Serge Felicetti, the city’s business development…

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‘A huge deal’ for the Falls

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…

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Work starts on new N.F., Ont. center

From Buffalo Business First: Regional and provincial officials gathered in Niagara Falls, Ont., Friday morning for the ceremonial ground breaking for the city’s first convention center. The nearly 200,000-square-foot, $100 million center is being constructed just off of Stanley Avenue and in the shadow of some of the city’s largest hotels. Niagara Falls officials have…

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Prepping for the new Convention Center

I noticed the other day that they have started running the piping down to the new Convention Center site along Livingstone Street, and the company doing the work on the new convention Center (Bondfield Construction) now have a couple of their trailers on site. We’ll keep you updated!

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More on new Convention Center

From  Niagara This Week The city has officially named the designer for its multi-million dollar convention centre due to open in the spring of 2011. Bondfield Construction, a Toronto-based builder whose portfolio includes Niagara College’s Niagara-on-the-Lake campus, the Queenston-Lewiston Bridge Plaza redevelopment and the Hilton Fallsview Hotel, will take on the design of the Niagara…

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