From Niagara This Week: While it looks like a new go-kart coaster attraction at the top of Clifton Hill is nearing completion, Mother Nature has played havoc with getting site race ready. The base of the track, including its ascending corkscrew, have been in place for weeks, but wet weather has delayed the pouring of…
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: While Western New Yorkers are still enjoying the warmth of summer, the City of Niagara Falls is looking for some fun new outdoor activities to offer to residents and visitors this winter — especially those that involve ice skating. On Monday, the Niagara Falls Community Development Department released a…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Despite facing hurdles to get a $1.5-billion development off the ground in Niagara Falls, the chairwoman of the company behind the proposal remains confident the project will eventually move ahead. “My vision to this project, and to the future of the project, has never been changed,” Helen Chang, chairwoman and…
From the Architects’ Journal: The Niagara Parks Commission has launched an international contest to re-masterplan the area surrounding Canada’s most iconic waterfall
From the Niagara Falls Review: Niagara Region Chairman Alan Caslin is continuing to push for regular Toronto to Niagara Falls GO train service to be up and running in time for the 2021 Canada Summer Games. However, Metrolinx — the arm’s-length provincial agency that operates GO Transit — isn’t committing to any changes to its…
For the longest time there was an abandoned house a couple of doors down from the Macs at the corner of Stanley Avenue and Ferry St. Late last week it was finally torn down. The lot behind it was empty, so now there is quite a large lot. I don’t know if there are any…
From the Niagara Falls Review: The city’s new 5,000-seat theatre will be located next to the Hilton Hotel and be connected to Fallsview Casino by a new enclosed walkway. Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG) officially announced the site late Thursday, despite work already being done on the property for weeks. The $130 million venue…
From the Niagara Falls Review: Despite construction starting on one of the rumoured sites for the new 5,000-seat theatre in Niagara Falls, Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. still hasn’t officially announced where it will be. Work has begun in the area behind the Hilton Fallsview Hotel off Stanley Avenue. The fenced-off section is within walking…
As seems to happen with all empty lots, the former Johnny Peppers (which had a fire, and then was ultimately demolished) has become a parking lot
From the Niagara Falls Reporter: Was the recent proposal by Niagara Falls Redevelopment to build a $205 million hotel on the site of the long-vacant Native American Center for the Living Arts, better known as “the Turtle,” designed to fend off a proposal by the state to seize it and other downtown properties under eminent…