Town of Niagara Photo Walk

1. Town of Niagara
Alyssa Diez
Community Studies
Photo Walk Slideshow

2. ● The topic I picked for this chapter comes from chapter
5: Metro and Edge City Growth
● Specifically, the topic being further discussed in the
photo walk is the concept of “edge cities”

3. Palen
● Palen discusses Garreau’s idea’s about edge cities
○ They must have “at least 5 million square feet of leasable office space”
○ “At least 600,000 square feet of retail space”
○ Edge cities fall within 3 large changes of metro areas of the last 50 years

4. Why Edge Cities?
● I chose this topic because I
believe the Town of Niagara
could be considered an edge city
due to:
○ The Fashion Outlets Mall
making up a majority of
retail space
○ Big retail plazas around the
area
The area of focus:
Military Road and Niagara
Falls Boulevard

5. Entering Niagara
Falls

6. Fashion Outlets of Niagara
The Fashion Outlets is a channel
where Americans and Canadians go to
shop, one of the most popular
attractions besides the Niagara Falls
State Park

7. Mural of Niagara Falls on the side of The Fashion
Outlets

8. Fashion Outlets
New Extension

9. A road from the outlet
leads to a chain of other
retail stores on Military
Road

10. LA
Fitness:
where
many go
to get
exercise

11. A “white girl’s
dream”

12. Plaza on
Niagara Falls
Boulevard

13. Target is one of the stores that are located in a Niagara
Falls Boulevard plaza along with Tops and Party City

14. Fuji Grill is a famous
Hibachi restaurant in
the local area

15. Town of Niagara info:
● Census of 2010 indicates
the population is of
8,378 people
● 2012 Survey of Business
Owners states there are
612 businesses
● 2011-2015 American Community
Survey states:
○ 90% or higher high school
graduation rate
○ 3,804 housing units
○ Average median income of $45,000
○ 14.8% of population are under
poverty level
○ 660 Veterans

16. Information on Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls
● Named on of the top 10 Shopping Centers in the U.S.
● Over 200 top brands
● Great Prices
● Currency exchange available for Canadian shoppers
● Translators of over 100 languages available
● Hours:
○ Monday-Saturday - 10 am to 9 pm
○ Sunday - 11 am to 6 pm
● This website shows a map of the mall and directions to the location:
○ Click here

17. What I learned from this experience:
● Being a resident of the Town of Niagara area, this photo walk experience
gave me the chance to identify topics in the textbook, and relate them to the
world I live in
● Taking notes and photographs helped to enhance my knowledge of the
readings and also helped me put titles to certains parts of Western New
York, which I was curious about all my life

18. Sources:
● Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS). “American FactFinder -
Community Facts.” United States Census Bureau, 5 Oct. 2010,
factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml?src=bkmk.
● “Fashion Outlets of Niagara Falls USA.” Niagara Falls USA,
www.niagarafallsusa.com/directory/fashion-outlets-of-niagara-falls-usa/.
● Palen, J. John. The Urban World. 10th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.