$4 Million Restoration Completed for Ramada Niagara Falls Hotel

From a PR Web press release seen on Yahoo! News: The Ramada Hotel on Stanley Avenue in Niagara Falls, Canada announced that the properties comprehensive restoration project totaling more than $4 million is now complete. The property improvement plan included newly renovated guest rooms, indoor heated pool, business center, exercise facility and on-site restaurant. The…

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Four Points by Sheraton Niagara Falls – Fallsview Celebrates $60 Million Expansion

From a PR Web press release seen on Yahoo! News: The Four Points by Sheraton Niagara Falls – Fallsview has a new look after the completion of its multimillion-dollar renovation. The 391-room hotel has completely transformed its lobby, guestrooms and meeting space, showing off a new upscale retreat look. Prior to becoming a Four Points…

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Notice of Application and Public Meeting regarding Ma Agretto’s Spaghetti House

(I thought I had posted this, but hadn’t) This sign for a notice of meeting was up outside Ma Agretto’s Spaghetti House at the corner of Ellen Ave and Centre St. Apparently someone wants to build a restaurant there (and I presume on the empty lots next to it). I hadn’t heard that.

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Butterflies set to soar again

From the Niagara Falls Review: The metamorphosis at the Butterfly Conservatory is almost complete. The large windows of the Niagara Parks attraction have been washed and the massive netting that keeps the colourful winged inhabitants away from the misting and air-handling units has been replaced. The verdant habitat of tropical greens has been pruned, rearranged…

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FIXING THE FALLS: Inspiration is right across the border

From the Niagara Gazette: Credit the idea for this week’s Sunday centerpiece to Frank Croisdale, founder of the group Niagara Rises. I was chatting with him about our plans for the ongoing series on economic development when he mentioned Queen Street in Niagara Falls, Ont. Frank described it as a street not unlike, say, Main…

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