USA NIAGARA: Spreading the wealth

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February 3, 2009

Staff Reports The Niagara Gazette Tue Feb 03, 2009, 07:21 AM EST

Here is how nearly $60 million in state funding has been allocated through USA Niagara Development Corp:

Infrastructure

• $3.5 million: Third Street reconstruction

• $2.5 million: Old Falls Street east mall reconstruction

• $7.9 million: Ongoing Old Falls Street west mall reconstruction

• $600,000: Ongoing “wayfinding system” to direct pedestrians to downtown attractions

• $500,000: Phase one of Rainbow Boulevard road project

Hotels

• $6 million: Crowne Plaza on Third Street

• $3 million: Holiday Inn, formerly Four Points Sheraton, on Rainbow Boulevard

• $150,000: Super 8 Motel on Rainbow Boulevard.

Other projects

• $20 million: Conference Center Niagara Falls

• $13 million: Set aside for proposed Niagara Experience Center

• $845,000: United Office Building

• $750,000: Niagara Aerospace Museum

• $100,000: Wine on Third

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