Canadian group eyes two Falls hotels

From the Buffalo News: The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency is considering tax breaks to help a Canadian company reopen two Niagara Falls hotels. The IDA board accepted applications Wednesday from the Merani Group of Companies, based in Niagara Falls, Ont., for payment-in-lieu of taxes arrangements, or PILOTs, to help it buy the former Inn…

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Gearing up for the Grand Prix

From the Niagara Falls Review: Project SHARE is gearing up for the 15th annual Niagara Falls Review SHARE Grand Prix. The go-kart race, to be held May 13 at Niagara Go-Karts and Mini-Putt, has become a popular spring event and is a major fundraiser for the charity. “We have a really great following for this…

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    Comfort Inn Fallsview construction

    I previously reported on the construction at the Comfort Inn Fallsview (formerly the Horseshoe Falls Motor Inn). They’ve made excellent progress and it is looking very nice. Although they aren’t totally finished, it is done enough for people to be able to stay there:

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      Falls hotels ready to rock in the new year; Plenty to do for families, revellers

      From the Niagara Falls Review: There’s no shortage of places to visit in Niagara Falls on New Year’s Eve. Bars, eateries and hotels across the city are expected to do brisk business Monday night as revellers prepare to ring in 2008. Officials at Niagara casinos expect to see around 80,000 people that night. New Year’s…

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        Extend Your Summer – Stay at Great Wolf Lodge in September

        Last Thursday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge. They are promoting special rates for September. The rates get better as we get further away from the summer. You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.

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        Niagara Falls Getaway Package

        Last Tuesday I received the latest newsletter from Niagara Hospitality Hotels, the operator of the The Oakes Hotel Overlooking the Falls. To subscribe to the newsletter, click on the Special Offers link on the main page of their site.

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        Vandals strike WFOL display

        From Niagara This Week: One of the more recent illuminations added to the Ontario Power Generation Festival of Lights is now dark. It’s all thanks to an act of vandalism which occurred sometime between midnight on Jan. 15 and 5 p.m. Jan. 16. That’s when an individual or a group caused substantial damage to the…

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        Crazy Joe’s Adventures: Niagara Falls

        Someone with a Blogger blog posted a brief comment about a visit to Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum: On Sunday I was in Niagara Falls to visit Ripley’s Believe It or Not Odditorium, Clifton Hill and also to see the falls. While at Ripley’s we touched touched the fertility statues which were on tour….

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