Human chain Sept. 20 to span Rainbow Bridge
From the Buffalo News: Two groups hope to create a human chain of more than 250 people across the Rainbow Bridge on Sept. 20, the eve of World Alzheimer’s Day.
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Falls to seek funds to redo parkway
From the Buffalo News: The city will seek an estimated $40 million in federal stimulus money to reconfigure or remove two sections of the Robert Moses Parkway. Mayor Paul A. Dyster said Tuesday he believes the money could help break a “logjam” over the highway by moving ahead with a project on two sections city…
Woman hands man her purse, jumps off the Rainbow Bridge
From the Buffalo News: A 56-year-old city woman handed her purse to a man walking on the Rainbow Bridge Tuesday night and jumped to her presumed death a short time later, Niagara Falls police said today. The woman, who was seen jumping from the bridge by the man and a U.S. Customs agent, would have…
As Niagara Falls / Tales of the strange but true – Blogosphere bumps
From the Buffalo News: Summer tourists are flocking to the falls. So are the bloggers. Online writers from all over the country are returning with reports of their summer vacations. Some loved the falls. Some thought it tacky. And there are ubiquitous pictures of people in Maid of the Mist slickers. Here’s the brutal truth…
Fog hangs over tourism spending
From the Buffalo News: The control of millions of dollars of public money used to market and promote Niagara Falls and Niagara County is in the hands of 17 people. They choose how casino revenue and hotel taxes should be used to promote tourism in the county. They determine the salaries of staff hired with…
Hotel project gets unusual tax break
From the Buffalo News: The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency granted an unusual tax break Thursday that will allow a Canadian company to avoid property taxes for five years on a Niagara Falls hotel to help it buy and rebuild the closed facility. The developer, Merani Hospitality, must meet certain levels of investment to receive…
TV’s ‘Office’ lovers will be ‘married’ in Niagara Falls
I know this was quite the buzz yesterday, but in case you haven’t heard it, here it is… From the Buffalo News: Lovebirds Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) and Pam Beesly (Jenna Fischer) will be heading to Niagara Falls shortly for their wedding this fall on NBC’s “The Office.” Greg Daniels, the executive producer of the…
Consultant brought back to refocus marketing strategy for city’s tourism
From the Buffalo News: The Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. has brought back a consultant who helped start the agency six years ago to refocus its marketing strategy for the future. The strategic marketing plan will attempt to pin down exactly who visits Niagara Falls and what markets should be pursued, corporation President John Percy…
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…
View from 9th floor gets judge’s clearance
From the Buffalo News: A ninth-floor observation deck in One Niagara on Rainbow Boulevard is open to the public after a judge’s ruling allowed the building’s manager to sidestep approval from the city to open the top floor. Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. on Thursday issued an order to allow the building’s ninth…