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 the Niagara Gazette: The Niagara Falls Tourism Advisory Board is doing its part to help U.S. Rep. Brian Higgins in his quest to get the New York Power Authority to pay for the removal of the Robert Moses Parkway. Board members submitted materials — historic maps, newspaper clippings — they gathered in an effort…
From the Niagara Gazette: It’s a big year for the Niagara Falls Bridge Commission — the entity is celebrating its 75th year of operation as well as the 50th anniversary of the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge. To celebrate the two milestones, a series of commemorative activities are planned for later this year.
From the Niagara Gazette: A $25 million hotel project the head of New York state’s development office characterized as a “very important opportunity” and one that should be taken “very seriously” by the city of Niagara Falls has been put on hold, as promised, by a trio of city lawmakers.
From the Niagara Gazette: Another new hotel project is in the works in downtown Niagara Falls. This time, a Grand Island hotelier plans to turn a long vacant office building located at 452 Third Street into a boutique hotel offering 11 rooms.
From the Niagara Gazette: Finding an upscale hotel experience on the American side of Niagara Falls has been a challenge for many years, but it will soon be getting a little easier. With seven hotel projects either planned or already under way, downtown will see about 950 new or renovated rooms, all of those providing…
From the Niagara Gazette: When John R. Hayes Sr., 48, a visitor from New Jersey, spotted the crisis near Terrapin Point that day, July 9, 1960, he dashed to the railing — less than 200 feet from the brink of the Horseshoe Falls — and started shouting. “Kick, girl! Kick your feet, come to me!”…
From the Niagara Gazette: …Saturday was the one year anniversary of Wallenda’s historic walk over this city’s giant waterfalls, and an informal Gazette survey showed that while the impact of the media storm of publicity last year is still unclear, the good news is that the city is now able to take advantage of additional…
From the Niagara Gazette: Another new hotel project is in the works in the city of Niagara Falls. The board of directors for the Niagara County Industrial Development Agency is expected to consider an application for assistance today from Plati Niagara Inc., LLC, a firm owned by the Strangio family, operators of the Quality Inn Hotel…