Still No Timetable for Nik Wallenda’s Walk Over Niagara Falls
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (including video):
There’s still No Timetable for Daredevil Nik Wallenda’s Walk over Niagara Falls.
It is scheduled for sometime this summer. State Senator George Maziarz ( R-Newfane) explained that negotiations with TV networks that want to televise the event are what’s holding up the announcement of a date.
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State parks system getting $89 million funding boost
From the Associated Press (via WGRZ Channel 2 or Syracuse.com):
The $132 billion state budget approved by the Legislature late last month includes $89 million in New York Works capital projects for the state-run system of 178 parks and 35 historic sites.
The funding breakdown released earlier this month includes:
— $25 million for Niagara Falls State Park, the oldest state park in the nation’s oldest state parks system, and the most-visited, with 8 million visitors a year.
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Wallenda will train in Niagara County for tightrope walk
From the Buffalo News:
Nik Wallenda will train in Niagara County for his tightrope walk across Niagara Falls later this summer.
Wallenda, in Albany Thursday to meet with state legislators, told The Buffalo News that he is dropping plans to train for the event on an airport runway in Pittsburgh and instead scouting locations in Niagara County.
“We’ll train with wind and rain and heavy mist and all that stuff so I’m prepared for the worst case when I get over the falls,” he said.
The ideal spot, he said, is a field large enough to string a cable between two cranes, the length of the wire that will take him from Goat Island on the American side to Canada.
He is looking at two sites in Niagara Falls and could announce his decision today during a visit there, a source said.
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Untangling Maid of the Mist lease
From the Buffalo News:
The low point of the Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co.’s century-old existence undoubtedly took place last month, when Canadian officials selected a California company to replace it on the Canadian shore.
But for the local company that grew itself into an iconic international tourism brand, the pain may not be over.
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Maid of The Mist Issue Impacting Tourism
From WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo:
Controversy over the Maid of the Mist is already impacting tourism in Niagara Falls. Officials say tourists are already calling with concerns.
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Balloon site developer up in the air
Do you ever remember seeing the big hot air balloon floating up above the Niagara Falls, New York skyline? Well, that attraction has gone the way of most of the other attractions over there. However, there has recently been some buzz about the property the attraction was using.
- Niagara Gazette – Balloon site developer up in the air
- Niagara Gazette – Newest Niagara Falls developer states the obvious
- Buffalo News – Developer cites natural wonder as hotel magnet
- Buffalo News – City Council approves hotel project
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Wallenda isn’t alone on a tightrope in the Falls
From the Buffalo News:
Canadian officials this month gave the final green-light to Nik Wallenda’s plan to wire-walk above Niagara Falls—and to turn the region into a worldwide media spectacle this summer.
Now, Wallenda and officials on both sides of the border must work to make the grand event happen, and that means figuring out plenty of details before the dawn of summer.
“All parties involved are going to have to come to the table collectively,” said John Percy, president and chief executive of the Niagara Tourism & Convention Corp.
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Seven plans offered for Falls site
From the Buffalo News:
The city whose reputation as a honeymoon capital is often overshadowed by its reputation for urban decay is poised to get its first major downtown development — outside of the Seneca Niagara Casino — in some 30 years.
City and state officials have confirmed that seven developers submitted proposals for a 38,000-square-foot site at 310 Rainbow Blvd.
While details of the specific plans were not released, officials said they would like to see a mixed-use building rise on the site to fill the unmet downtown demand for retail, food, beverage, residential and hotel space around the falls.
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Schumer Puts Shoulder Behind Wheel To Remove Robert Moses parkway
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo:
The Robert Moses Parkway has long been viewed by some as a “concrete moat” between the city and its riverfront, and thus an impediment to potential economic development.
But for just as long, its proposed removal has been mired in red tape according Falls Mayor Paul Dyster.
“Sometimes people call it the ‘Peace Bridge’ of Niagara Falls,” Dyster remarked, in reference to the now decade long debate over building a new international border crossing between Buffalo, NY and Fort Erie, Ont.
On Monday, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) came to Niagara Falls to announce his support for the effort to remove the Robert Moses Parkway between John Daly Boulevard and Main Street and replace it with a park road, improving pedestrian access between the city’s South End tourist district and the waterfront, in hopes of sparking economic growth.
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Preparing to Drop The Guitar in The Falls!
From WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo (includes video):
The scaffolding is being set up, the stage will soon be in place, and the thousands will soon jam down Old Falls Street, as 2012 will be ushered in in fine musical fashion.
For the third year, The Hard Rock Guitar Drop will bring in the new year. The metal rigging is currently being welded by city workers at the welding shop where plows are usually the main repair. The mini-zamboni is out on the outdoor skating rink surrounded by a holiday market place, in short The Falls is ready to roll out the red carpet.
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