There is a plan to convert this quiet, little-known neighborhood park on Joliet Avenue into a public canoe launch with paved walking trails and a paved parking lot.
Before Parlato arrived the glass building, erected in 1980 and adjacent to the Rainbow Bridge, sat vacant for years. Worse, the failed AquaFalls project had left a literal hole, to match the figurative one, in the center of the city's tourism district.
Parlato filled that hole on both accounts. Today his One Niagara building is a hub of buzzing tourist activity