Construction Watch: Niagara Falls Hyatt Place

From BuffaloRising.com: The Hyatt Place hotel at 310 Rainbow Boulevard in Niagara Falls is speeding towards an early 2018 opening. The $35 million project by Hamister Group, LLC broke ground in July 2016. The six-story, 128-room hotel will feature up to 6,600 sq.ft. of meeting and banquet space (including an outdoor patio) on the top…

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Downtown Wi-Fi program gets a boost from Destination Niagara

From the Niagara Gazette: Destination Niagara USA, the renamed tourism bureau of Niagara County, has thrown financial support behind a local push to install wireless Internet equipment on Old Falls Street. The Wi-Fi pilot program, which would allow up to 4,000 simultaneous users to access the web on their telephones, laptops and tablets, is being…

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Free WIFI could be coming to Niagara Falls

From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo: The Niagara Global Tourism Institute (NGTI) has asked the city of Niagara Falls for $50,000 to create three blocks of public WIFI between the Seneca Niagara Casino and Niagara Falls State Park on Old Falls Street. The purpose of the WIFI is to help tourists avoid the “roaming” charges…

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Niagara Falls announces summer events

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: Niagara Falls announced events and activities for this summer. Destination NiagaraUSA, Old Falls Street, USA, Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino and Niagara Falls State Park held a joint press conference Thursday to announce the plans. “I am so pleased that all of our downtown partners have come together to…

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Gov. Proposes Buying Downtown NF Properties

From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo: For the first time in a very long time, there are signs of life in downtown Niagara Falls. On Rainbow Boulevard, construction crews have been working around the clock to build Mark Hamister’s $35 million Hyatt Place hotel, set to open later this year. The world-famous Rainforest Café opened…

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Officials want feasibility study on new event center in Niagara Falls, NY

From WIVB Channel 4 in Buffalo: Leaders in Niagara Falls want to build a new convention and event center downtown. The center would be much larger than the current one on Old Falls Street. Officials say they’re currently waiting for the state to sign off on a feasibility study. New York State Asemblyman John Ceretto…

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Rainforest Cafe opening in Niagara Falls

From Buffalo Business First: The Rainforest Cafe is expanding its local footprint by adding a second location — this time on the U.S. side of Niagara Falls. Canadian Niagara Hotels, owners of the Sheraton at the Falls complex in Niagara Falls, N.Y., are bringing a Rainforest Cafe to their property. The 14,000-square-foot restaurant, which will…

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Hershey’s Sweet Treats opens in Sheraton at the Falls

From the Buffalo News: The newest storefront on Old Falls Street opened just in time for the busy Memorial Day weekend. Hershey’s Sweet Treats opened May 23 in the Sheraton at the Falls, Old Falls and Third streets, in what was an additional seating area for the Starbucks located in the hotel’s ground floor. The…

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Niagara Falls City Council votes down free outdoor concert

From the Buffalo News: A proposal to put on a free outdoor concert in downtown Niagara Falls this summer was shot down by city lawmakers on Monday night. Mayor Paul A. Dyster’s administration pitched a concert for Old Falls Street, but concern about the $40,000 cost to the city generated concern among some members of…

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Global Tourism Institute proposed for Niagara Falls

From the Buffalo News: A tourism mecca at the edge of one of the world’s most famous natural attractions. That’s the idea behind Niagara University’s plans to establish a center for high-tech innovation in the tourism in downtown Niagara Falls. Called the Niagara Global Tourism Institute, it would be the second institution of higher learning…

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