For some time now, Canadian Niagara Hotels has had approval from the city for a hotel on a small piece of property by the Jolley Cut. The other day I was walking along Robinson Street, and there is some parking between Robinson Street and Murray Street that has big billboards for the Canadian Niagara Hotels properties (hotels, restaurants and attractions). I always assumed the property was owned by them.
There is now a sign on the property announcing a city meeting to approve the use of that space as parking for a hotel that will be at 5392 Robinson St.
I pulled up maps from both Google and Microsoft, but it is hard to see exactly where that property is. The City of Niagara Falls site lists the site on their Proposed and New Development Projects page, and they have a nice map that shows the lot:
Sure enough, when I was by the lot the other day, they have a copy of that same sign. The lot is currently being used as a parking lot.
Does this indicate that Canadian Niagara Hotels is going to start building soon?
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Wow I can’t believe that they’re putting a hotel there. This is a tiny piece of land at the end of the Skylon Tower parking lot, I honestly can’t even envision what sort of building would fit there. It’s much longer than it is wide but the further you go towards the falls the more you get into the forest that (I assume) is protected Parks Commission land. This will be interesting…
This is it: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/3870/2188505010086450214xoulntphfy0.jpg
It’s was approved a while ago, I believe, but it must be changing as they are now asking for off-site parking.
Thanks for the link Rick, but the first link takes you to my posting where that image you linked to originally came from.
Oops, sorry! I guess Adam and I didn’t check out that link.
The scale on that image is very weird. The (oddly translucent) Skylon in the background is so small you’d think that the hotel is 1000 feet tall.
Either way, that’s a far cry from a gravel parking lot manned by a guy in a lawn chair.
That parking lot has become a ghost town. Many casino employees used it to park, but the owners cracked down and started towing people left, right, and centre. I think the fee is around $250!!