Tim Hortons / Retail / Galaxy Golf update
The HOCO building that will have a Tim Hortons, a retail store, and Galaxy Golf still seems to be coming along well:
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Stay and Play in Niagara Falls
I recently received the latest newsletter from the Days Inn Niagara Falls Fallsview hotel.
Illumination board to seek funding for lighting upgrade
From Niagara This Week: The Niagara Falls Illumination Board is looking to the community for help to revitalize lighting of the Horseshoe and American falls. The last update to the lighting system came 20 years ago when the current Xenon lighting system was installed. Following a thorough Request for Qualifications (RFQ) and Request for Proposal…
GO to Niagara Falls
From GO Transit: Our seasonal excursion train service between Niagara Falls and Toronto is starting up again! In addition to our year-round bus service, passengers can take the train between Toronto and Niagara Falls starting Victoria Day weekend. The trains will be stopping at Union, Exhibition, Port Credit, Oakville, Burlington, St. Catharines and Niagara Falls…
Crowne Plaza conversion complete in Falls
From Yahoo! Finance: The $20 million conversion of the former Holiday Inn Select into a Crowne Plaza Hotel is complete for the downtown Niagara Falls property. The Crowne Plaza nameplate officially goes on the 397-room, Third Street hotel Tuesday morning. The conversion began last year shortly after Phoenix-based Namwest LLC acquired the hotel. The hotel…
New downtown Sheraton celebrates official opening
From the Niagara Gazette: A family with a long history in Niagara Falls hotels is expanding back into the Cataract City and putting a new face and name on a familiar Third Street fixture. Under the kind of sunny skies that herald the return of tourist season to the Falls, the DiCienzo family, the owners…
Hard Rock Niagara Falls corporate site
The other day I came across the corporate site for the Hard Rock restaurant chain. The Niagara Falls section includes basic contact information. It also has some nice still shots of both the interior and exterior, as well as some nice 360° shots.
Bronto’s Adventure Playland construction update
The changes I mentioned at Bronto’s Adventure Playland are more substantial than I thought. They’ve added new fencing around the whole thing and made it larger (brought it out to the front more).
Animals chillin’ at Marineland; Keeping marine life cool in summer heat a complicated task
From the Niagara Falls Review: Trying to beat the heat has been a whale of a challenge this summer, but not for the folks who care for the menagerie of animals at Marineland. As Marineland’s pod of belugas hail from the cool arctic waters along the Russian coast, they don’t care too much for the…
Cool Canadian Motel Signs
Canadian Driver magazine has an interesting article about cool motel signs: For many people, old motel signs from the mid-twentieth century are nothing more than clutter at the side of the road. Typically falling into disrepair, most see them as garish, kitchy, cartoon-like contraptions that promise far more than their establishments ever delivered. Junk, in…