Focus on Niagara Falls Tourism
Falls restaurateur proposes carousel on Rainbow Boulevard
NIAGARA FALLS— A co-owner of the Como Restaurant is seeking city approval to put a carousel on a vacant Rainbow Boulevard parcel where a helium balloon once operated. (Updated: 09/24/09 7:41 AM )
Falls airport terminal will soon take wing
WHEATFIELD — Hopes were high today for the new terminal at Niagara Falls International
Airport. (Updated: 09/02/09 5:31 PM )
Pursuing a dream in a bottle
Lockport native Cynthia West-Chamberlain has spent the past 15 years in a high-tech, fast-paced work environment. Her job was to market some of the most cutting-edge products in the computer world. (Updated: 08/30/09 5:15 PM )
Fog hangs over tourism spending
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. (Updated: 08/16/09 6:36 AM )
Rainbow Centre thought for food
NIAGARA FALLS — Politicians and developers celebrating the opening of the Rainbow Centre mall in 1982 poured champagne into a 62-foot water fountain that was the focal point of the new shopping center. (Updated: 08/09/09 6:46 AM )
Hoping Falls airport will fly
A new $31.6 million terminal at Niagara Falls International Airport will open its doors in September with a sweeping roof designed to evoke the Niagara River and enough space to handle more than one commercial flight at a time. (Updated: 07/12/09 6:54 AM )
Still digging -- A breakdown of the airport budget
The NFTA is still looking for $14.5 million to pay for the new terminal and other improvements at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Here is the project budget and revenue stream: (Updated: 07/12/09 9:13 AM )
View from 9th floor gets judge’s clearance
NIAGARA FALLS — 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. (Updated: 07/08/09 7:44 AM )
Falls may put hold on tourism funds
NIAGARA FALLS — A City Council member wants to withhold casino revenue for the Niagara Tourism and Convention Corp. until the nonprofit marketing agency hands over additional records about its finances. (Updated: 07/07/09 7:14 AM )
Wintergarden could see new life elsewhere
NIAGARA FALLS — Window by window, the asymmetrical Wintergarden on Rainbow Boulevard is coming down. (Updated: 06/12/09 8:18 AM )
Visions of a Falls panacea don’t pan out
NIAGARA FALLS — An agreement praised as having “ironclad assurances” that would lead to new development downtown contained only one substantial remedy for the city if no construction occurred. (Updated: 06/07/09 9:26 AM )
City to vote on deal for Rainbow Centre
NIAGARA FALLS—The company that leases the Rainbow Centre has agreed to drop its lawsuit against the city if a proposed settlement is approved in which the city acknowledges it is not feasible to operate a shopping mall inside the building “in the current business climate.” (Updated: 05/28/09 7:14 AM )
Whirlpool Jet Boat status still unsettled
A grass-roots group seeking to bar the Whirlpool Jet Boat company from using a dock in Niagara-on-the- Lake, Ont., won a two-year battle in court last week but found more turbulence Monday night when the fight over the operation landed back before the Town Council. (Updated: 05/27/09 8:12 AM )
Artpark summer lineup mixes music, theater and dance
LEWISTON –Artpark unveiled its full summer lineup Wednesday, putting itself first in line among free outdoor concert venues in Western New York to release its list of acts. (Updated: 05/07/09 9:24 AM )
Owner disputes entangle One Niagara
NIAGARA FALLS — It has been 10 years since a French man and a Hong Kong investor bought a nine-story glass office building on Rainbow Boulevard and announced an extraordinary plan to construct an underground aquarium on the site. (Updated: 04/19/09 10:18 AM )