ST. CATHARINES-NIAGARA FALLS | Niagara Region Development Thread
" THE CITY OF THUNDER " :fingerscrossed: HIGHRISE IMAGE PROPOSALS :fingerscrossed: :rainbow: Rainbow Plaza Hotel 229 m 59 floors: Proposed Hilton expansion 52 floors: Hampton Inn 30 stories Skylon North and South Tower 26 & 24 floors: Skylon Holiday Inn Tower Westin Hotel/Hotel at Jolley cut 27 floors: "Skywheel" Amusement Park and Comfort Suites: http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/6264/457126ck4.jpg Marriott @ Courtyard: Crowne Plaza Hotel "On Hold" Eighth Wonder Hotel & Condominiums Marineland Parkway Luxury Condominiums Eagle Valley Condominiums 10 Floors: Niagara Falls Sports and Entertainment Centre Niagara Convention & Civic Centre.....Image Is Example Only Ripley's Aquirium of Canada Skylon Tower Pavilion Skylon Development, New Niagara Falls Tourism Centre: FUTURE SKYLINE? :blink: H:psycho:TEL PROJECTS COMPLETED: 1. RENAISSANCE FALLSVIEW.......16 FLOORS 1986
1. MACBAIN COMMUNITY CENTRE ATTRACTIONS C:psycho:MPLETED: 1. CASINO NIAGARANIAGARA SKYWHEEL GREAT WOLF LODGE & "INDOOR WATERPARK" FALLSVIEW WATERPARK "SKYSCREAMER" AT MARINELAND "WWE" PILEDRIVER RIDE PLANET HOLLYWOOD HARD ROCK CAFE FALLSVIEW CASINO CASINO NIAGARA AVALON BALLROOM GREG FREWIN THEATRE AND MAGIC SHOW ATTRACTIONS :notacrook: CLIFTON HILL |
you cant deny it, niagara falls is reaching for the sky
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seen them all but the condo and the marriot court yard. It be nice if the guy would beable to build the crown to. but I hear he can't clam i money legally.
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way to go Niagara...it's been a decade since i've been there...gotta make a trip...
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BUILDINGS THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
MOTEL 6 COUNTRY INN & SUITES GREG FREWIN THEATRE HOTEL GREATER NIAGARA GENERAL HOSPITAL |
Yep looks like a turist trap.
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I would imagine that the United State's Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative will have a significant impact on whether many of these proposed developments actually are built. If and when Americans are required to have passports to enter or re-enter the United States, the number of Americans heading to Niagra Falls will continue to decline. I wonder if any increase in Asian and European tourists will be able to fill the additional rooms in all these proposed hotels when WHTI comes into affect over the next 4 to 16 months. I cannot imagine very many of these huge projects getting off the ground until the passport issue is resolved.
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THE "NIAGARA" NEW CONDO TOWER OVERLOOKING THE FALLS
Condo will attract new people to city: Developer COREY LAROCQUE Local News - Wednesday, July 12, 2006 @ 02:00 Condominiums with a view of the Niagara River will be attractive to retirees from Toronto looking to downsize to the "condo life," as well as to international investors who might want to live in Niagara part-time, says the business development director for The Niagara condominium residence. "When somebody can actually see those kinds of views from their residences, that's pretty incredible," said Marc Baronette, the business development director for ORE Development Corp. The Mississauga company plans to build The Niagara, a 29-storey condominium residence on River Road. By building the tallest residential building in Niagara Falls, it will attract new people to the city. "How you make great cities greater ... It's really residents that make a city greater," said Baronette, who grew up in St. Catharines and has kept in touch with the Niagara region during his career as a developer. "As a company, we really like the peninsula," he said. This is the first residential condominium project for ORE Development, which has previously developed industrial property throughout southern Ontario. The company is the Canadian office of the Opus Group of real estate development companies that has completed more than 2,300 projects. ORE Development issued a press release Tuesday announcing plans to have Harvey Kalles Real Estate act as the exclusive sales agent for the 250 units. That announcement came the day after city council passed the bylaw authorizing the official plan amendment for the project. Until now, their marketing had been confined to signs erected on River Road near the corner of John Street and a website. ORE hopes to have all the city and regional council approvals in place by the fall. They would start construction next spring and open in 2009, Baronette said. The company advertises condos starting at $169,900 for the smallest of the units. An average two-bedroom condo would go for about $250,000. The company still has some details to work out about sales prices, Baronette said. At an average price of $250,000, a 250-unit building would bring in about $62.5 million in sales revenue. But the press release says it will be a $70-million project. "Seventy million is a round figure. There's parking revenue as well ... There's some penthouse units that are going to sell for even more. We haven't really figured out those things yet," Baronette said. Some people have asked about buying an entire floor in the building, which will measure about 7,500 square feet. While ORE said The Niagara will be a good addition to the city's residential real estate mix, some existing neighbours haven't been as welcoming. More than 200 people signed a petition urging council not to approve it. Council voted for it despite its planning department's recommendation against the tower. Now, a group of neighbours are planning to appeal the city's decision to the Ontario Municipal Board. "Anybody can appeal anything. If a group of ratepayers decides to pursue that avenue, that's something we have to deal with as a developer," Baronette said. :tup: THE REVIEW |
THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IS AN ATTRACTION IN ITSELF
Power station gearing up for new life; Rediscovering Niagara ROBIN HEALEY / Review Staff Writer Local News - Tuesday, August 01, 2006 @ 02:00 After 33 years of dormancy, there is new activity behind the columns of the Toronto Power Generating Station. But the stately building that sits above the falls won't be used to generate electricity. It is being dismantled 100 years after it was built. In May, around 50 workers began removing the machinery inside. They are expected to clear out the plant, but leave the building intact by January of next year, said Rick Everdell, director of project management for the hydroelectric division of the Ontario Power Generation. OPG will turn over building to the Niagara Parks Commission when the work is completed. The commission will then assess the building before its future is decided, said Marika Kozachenko, who is managing the commission's takeover of the power station. The building's massive interior and grand facade have provoked interest ever since it was decommissioned in 1973. In 1983 it underwent a trial as a science and engineering museum. Nine years ago there was talk of turning it into a museum or a tourist attraction. "This was a real showpiece at the time," said Dean Norton, public affairs officer for OPG. He said the Electrical Development Company completed the building in 1906 using the designs of celebrated Canadian architect E.J. Lennox, who also designed Toronto's Old City Hall and Casa Loma. "As far as I know, there's nothing else comparable," added Everdell. He said the architecture was enhanced because of its location on parks land by the falls. Parks Canada designated the building a national historic site in 1983 for its importance to early power generation and its Beaux-Arts style of architecture. The style combined classical Greek and Roman design with Renaissance forms. "With the concrete columns you'd think they were holding up the world," said Norton. He said water dropped down through the bay at the back of the building and turned turbines that drove the generators on the main floor when the plant was operational. After the water went through the turbines, it flowed over the falls. The building's proximity to the falls allowed for a famous rescue in 1918, added Norton. A scow broke loose from its towing tug and was headed over the falls. The two men aboard opened the scow's bottom dumping doors to sink it, but were left stranded in the Niagara River. Rescuers shot a line out from the roof of the powerhouse with a breeches-buoy to save the men the next day. There are several reasons for the station being decommissioned, Everdell said. He said a geological phenomenon called rock squeeze shifted the rock around the wheel pit, which is buried deep below the building and houses the turbines. The shifting rock threw the machinery out of alignment, causing it to deteriorate. The generating station also needed a costly upgrade to produce 60 hertz of power instead of 25 hertz and was inefficient compared to the Sir Adam Beck complex. Despite its deficiencies as a power plant, the exterior and the marble entrance have endured. "You could take a bucket of soapy water to (the entrance) and it would look brand new," said Norton. :tup: THE REVIEW |
CITY LOOKING TO REVITALIZE THE DOWNTOWN.
City budget needs $36M more: Report Cash for downtown projects By Corey Larocque Local News - Saturday, May 27, 2006 @ 02:00 NIAGARA FALLS City council should spend about $36 million between now and 2008 creating the right conditions to encourage more activity in the downtown area, a report from the city’s finance department says. “We’ve designated downtown as an area for revitalization,” said Ald. Wayne Campbell, chairman of the city’s corporate services committee. “We’ve got a developer (interested in investing). There needs to be some further money into the ground.” The report is on the agenda for a budget amendment meeting Monday at 6 p.m. It lists three downtown projects and associated costs: n $14.1 million to construct a parking garage n $12.8 million for streetscaping, sewers, new lighting and road reconstruction n $8.7 million for parks n $540,000 in associated legal and planning costs The report says the city would have to borrow about $27.8 million of the $36 million costs. Applying $6.75 million from the sale of city-owned land at the northwest corner of McLeod and Montrose roads would also go toward the downtown project. They could find $2 million from other funds already existing in the budget, the report states. Though the report put the full cost of the improvements at more than $36 million, Mayor Ted Salci said assistance from other governments could reduce the city’s commitment. If Niagara Falls can get the federal and provincial governments to contribute one-third of the cost each, the city’s commitment would drop to about $12 million. “We’ve got to focus our attention over the next year or so on getting those monies,” said Salci, who has often said he would only support a downtown project “if it makes sense financially.” “I don’t want to see that borne on the backs of the taxpayers’ assessment,” Salci said. Since 2004, council has adopted recommendations in two studies aimed at revitalizing downtown the Community Improvement Plan and the Strategic Implementation Plan. Both studies recommend public money be used to make the area more attractive. But they indicated those improvements be made over a longer period that is being suggested now. The pressure to move faster came earlier this year when New York City businessman Aaron Lichtman presented the Historic Niagara plan. Lichtman has said a group of investors will spend $100 million to renovate commercial property they own and attract a variety of retailers to the Queen Street area. But Lichtman has said the city’s public realm improvements need to be in place by 2008. Lichtman had said he planned to be in Las Vegas for a convention this week, promoting to retailers the idea of setting up shop in Niagara Falls. He could not be reached to comment on whether the proposed budget changes would give his investors what they need to move ahead. City council members support the goals of the Community Improvement Plan and Strategic Implementation Plan. But they are divided over how much money they should commit and how quickly it should unfold. “I support the CIP. I always have,” said Ald. Janice Wing. “I can’t support doing that much in so short a period of time.” The city shouldn’t go further into debt over the downtown project when roads and sewers need work and there are drainage problems in the rural areas of Niagara Falls, Wing said. The $36 million council will consider adding to its capital budget Monday is in addition to the budget passed in March. That five-year plan called for the city to spend $156 million over five years on construction projects. A capital budget is a five-year plan for spending on big-ticket items. Typically, it shows how to pay for large construction projects using long-term borrowing. Under the budget that has been passed, the city’s debt would peak at about $53 million in 2008. It would cost about $7 million a year to pay the interest and principal repayment on a debt that size. Adding more spending to the capital budget isn’t a guarantee it will happen. Every year, politicians adjust their capital budget to fit their current financial position. “We can pretty well put that into next year’s budget and have a sober second look at it then,” Campbell said. But the reason for showing the downtown improvements occurring by 2008 is to give Historic Niagara the confidence it needs to proceed. “There would be no purpose to change that unless they weren’t walking down the same path with us,” Campbell said. |
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THIS WOULD BE A HUGE INVESTMENT!
$300M Resort Expansion Planned for Niagara Falls August 14, 2006 By Dees Stribling, Special Correspondent Grand Niagara Resort Inc., a partnership that owns and operates a new golf course in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is planning a C$300 million expansion of the facility. At its completion, scheduled for 2010, the 800-acre complex will include another golf course, a Hilton hotel, conference facility, time-share condos, homesites, a winery and a pair of manmade lakes. "The biggest driver for the development is that the area is lacking a 12-month conference destination," Graham Cocking, director of sales and marketing for Grand Niagara, told CPN this afternoon. "Also, there's a tremendous demand for a full-service golf resort." According to Cocking, the Grand Niagara development will be the first such full-service golf resort built in Ontario in the last two decades. The development will also benefit from the fact that Niagara Falls is already an established tourist--and more recently, meeting--destination, he noted. The project is a joint venture between A.D. Sharp Development Co. and the Consulate Development Group, both of Mississauga, Ontario. The JV has been assembling land for the project along the Welland River for about seven years. Last year it opened the 18-hole Grand Niagara Golf Course, which was designed by renowned golf course architect Rees Jones Inc. Investors in the first course included golfer Greg Norman, who will lend his name to the second 18-hole course. The Hilton will include 350 rooms and a 20,000-square-foot spa and recreation area, and there will be about 300 time-share units and 220 homesites. __________________ |
I was in Niagara about a month ago for a little vacation. I dont know how they plan on filling all these new hotels. When I was there it was dead. On a weekend too. Even the Casino wasnt busy. I stayed at the Sheraton and they told me they were only 25% full. It really pissed me off as well that the city of Niagara falls charges a tax on top of everything purchased. I won't be back for a while.
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NYC is a huge city. So the buildings match the city. Niagara Falls last posted 76,000 people and they have a lot of high-rise buildings going up soon. The prices there are way to much. Working in the hotels and big restaurants and growing up there I really don't like it to much anymore. I use to be great but now all they want is money. The other downfall is they only higher seasonal.
I love Niagara on the lake its pricy but its beautiful. Everyone has there taste. |
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Work continues on Niagara Square Mall, in this image you can see their new sign as well as the storefronts of the Future Shop, Linen & Things, Petcetera and inside the mall opening August 24th, is Winners.
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Looking great I have been, wanting to go back home and see the square. But sad thing is the rest of the building is not symmetric with the other 3/4 of the building. I hope that when it’s finished it will boost the mall and make it a lot better.
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DOWNTOWN NEWS.
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THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DEVELOPMENT, YET HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH NIAGARA!
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