decline and untapped potential. The city’s new 60acre industrial park north of Porter Road signals a strategic pivot toward modern industry, leveraging unique assets that few communities can match. “We already have sold 15 acres to a Stony Creek firm,” Mayor Restaino reports. “We have a lot of interest from Canadian businesses that want to have a US footprint. This particular light manufacturing company makes parts for wind turbines in the “Niagara Falls is seeing some very, very heightened interest for development as well as for entertainment here on the state side,” Mayor Restaino concludes, positioning the city to compete more effectively with its Canadian counterpart. BUILDING TOMORROW’S ECONOMY Manufacturing once defined Niagara Falls, employing thousands in factories along Buffalo Avenue. Today, those shuttered plants represent both painful 52 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 08
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTI5MjAx