Article: Casinos Spur Development at Canada's Niagara Falls.

By Peter Panepento, Erie Times-News, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 10--NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario -- A pair of toothpick-like towers stood for three decades as the only landmark features in this city's once-stark skyline.

The Minolta Tower and Skylon Tower -- a pair of 1960s-era creations designed to give visitors panoramic views of one of the world's seven natural wonders -- guarded a landscape of budget hotels, inexpensive restaurants and souvenir shops.

But in the decade since the Ontario government began making plans to open its first casino in Niagara Falls, the city's tourism industry has been transformed into an ...

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