History
Planning began in February 1998 – Falls Management Group L.C. selected to develop new casino resort. The casino was built on a site that was once the Ontario Power Company Generating Station, transformer station building for the Ontario Power Company at the foot of Horseshoe Falls. Prior to the casino's construction, the site was also occupied by the Canadian Pacific Railway Montrose Subdivision. Construction began in 2001 and the resort opened on June 10, 2004.Grounds
The casino resort complex takes up . The resort includes a casino that holds over 130 gaming tables, including poker tables; and over 3,500 slot machines. Additionally, the resort includes 18 restaurant, a shopping centre with 30 shops, one nightclub, a fitness spa, and a hotel with 372 rooms and suites. The resort also includes the Avalon Ballroom Theatre with 1,500 seats, with another 5,000 seat entertainment center is being built as of April 2020. The east façade of the complex retains the walls of the terrace and front entrance of the transformer station built in 1904. The area where the transformers resided is now the Grand Hall convention halls. At the main entrance is a water feature called 'The Teslatron'. In its first few years of operation, it held night screenings with sound and lighting, but that has stopped in the last few years. At street level there is a fountain that varies its height with the wind so as not to wet pedestrians and passing cars. The resort also includes a parking lot with 3,000 spaces.See also
* Casino Niagara * List of casinos in Canada * Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel, the largest casino on the American side of the Falls * List of tallest buildings in Niagara Falls, OntarioReferences
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