Queen Street

As a frequent visitor to Niagara Falls, I was lucky enough to take advantage with the People Movers Bus Line operated by the Niagara Parks Commission. On 8-13-12 The WEGO Bus line took over for the People Movers bringing transportation in Niagara Falls to a more current and highly functioning operation not to mention a [...]

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Graham on December 28th, 2011

From the Niagara This Week: It’s an interesting time in Niagara Falls. The CAA Winter Festival of Lights are in full swing, the songs of the season echo down Queen Street. But the Niagara Parks Commission is not in a Christmas mood. Playing the grinch to Nik Wallenda’s bid to walk across the gorge on [...]

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Graham on September 12th, 2011

Regular visitor Dan let me know about this. It isn’t in the main tourist districts of Clifton Hill or Fallsview, but downtown Niagara Falls (Queen Street) is becoming more of a destination for people. I’m not sure exactly who is in charge of what, but a group out of Maryland has created a marketing video [...]

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From the Niagara Gazette: Credit the idea for this week’s Sunday centerpiece to Frank Croisdale, founder of the group Niagara Rises. I was chatting with him about our plans for the ongoing series on economic development when he mentioned Queen Street in Niagara Falls, Ont. Frank described it as a street not unlike, say, Main [...]

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Graham on May 5th, 2010

From the Niagara Falls Review: It’s ironic to hear Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak accuse the Liberal government of “abandoning” tourism in Niagara Falls, but that’s politics. Hudak and Conservative tourism critic Ted Arnott blasted Liberal Tourism Minster Michael Chan for not visiting Niagara Falls since he became the provincial cabinet minister responsible for the [...]

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Someone with a WordPress blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls: We went for a drive, out to lunch then dinner in Niagara Falls, Ontario. They have revitalized the Queen Street area and Amore Pizza is there. Gorgeous, colorful decor, excellent gourmet pizza at a very reasonably (low) price! I could just go [...]

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Lonny on June 3rd, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review Last year, over 35,000 people were re-introduced to a revamped Queen Street during the inaugural Springlicious festival. “It was a big surprise,” said Don Weaver, owner of GPS Pursuits and chairman of Celebrate Old Downtown which is the special events wing of the downtown business association. “We didn’t realize there [...]

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Lonny on May 20th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review Seneca Theater Rendering Close to 15 years after the curtain closed, the Seneca Theatre is back in business this week. And it took a savvy group of gypsies to pull it off. For nearly a year, Gypsy Theatre owners John Dalingwater and Bernadette Feeney have been transforming the abandoned former [...]

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Graham on January 24th, 2009

From the Niagara Falls Review: Queen Street if necessary, but not necessarily Queen Street. Ontario’s Liberal government would throw the search for a new Casino Niagara location wide open if it were ever forced to leave the Falls Avenue address it has had for more than 12 years, according to provincial infrastructure minister George Smitherman, [...]

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