From the Buffalo News: Expansion of the Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls received environmental approval Tuesday as the Town Board approved a number of resolutions that clear the way for construction to begin. The board, which has been reviewing the site plan and how the expansion will impact traffic, drainage, noise and air quality as…
From the Niagara Gazette: The city’s Community Development department is taking to the small screen in an effort to attract people to Niagara Falls. The department has commissioned two commercials highlighting Community Development programs and promoting the city as an ideal place to live, work and play.
From the Niagara Gazette: Many visitors to the Niagara Falls State Park Wednesday definitely had mixed emotions about their travel plans. They were thrilled to view the falls — even with a large section of the Prospect Point viewing area fenced off for remedial work— but disappointed that they would have to skip visits to…
From the Buffalo News: The best ideas for new downtown development projects will have a crack at $40 million in public incentives, state and city officials announced Thursday. The state and the City of Niagara Falls are offering access to public dollars over the next five years as part of a competition dubbed the “Downtown…
From the Niagara Gazette: Niagara Falls Up Close, a new website dedicated to promoting the region has been launched. The site is located at www.niagarafallsupclose.com and features important and interesting information for those wishing to visit Niagara Falls. The site has no commercial connection to any hotel, casino, restaurant or governmental municipality in the region….
From Yahoo! Canada News: The multi-million-dollar improvements made to New York’s most-visited state park have been unveiled, while the next phase of the renovations begin. Local media outlets report that state and local officials gathered Wednesday at Prospect Point at the edge of the American Falls in Niagara Falls State Park to celebrate the completion…
From the Buffalo News: This year marks 35 years since residents in the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagara Falls sounded the alarm on toxic chemicals. Over 800 families were relocated and the federal Superfund program was created to clean up the nation’s most polluted toxic waste sites. During the last century, the U.S. side of…
From WIVB channel 4 in Buffalo: Crews in Niagara Falls are hard at work getting the Maid of the Mist ready for the winter. The tour boat company must remove its vessels from the lower Niagara River before the water freezes over. But before that can happen, a giant crane from Germany has to be…
From the Lockport Union-Sun & Journal: Downtown visitors may have another view to enjoy after a proposed development project is completed. Mark Hamister, the CEO of the Hamister Group, said that his company’s planned hotel will have a top floor banquet room with access to a 5,000 square-foot patio overlooking the Niagara Gorge and Niagara…
From Buffalo Business First: Ontario officials are trying to find a way to lessen traffic congestion around the Rainbow Bridge. The Niagara Falls Review reports that a public information meeting will be held this Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. in Niagara Falls, Ont. “We’ve been looking at traffic entering into Canada from the…