An enormous hotel and residential complex that was primed to replace a long-abandoned construction site and become the tallest in Niagara Falls appears to have been put on ice, and you might not want to hold your breath for the tourist hotspot's promised skyline transformation. A new development application for the long-abandoned site at 6609 Stanley Avenue reveals that the developer behind the enormous project has heavily scaled back its ambitions amid tough economic times. Plans to develop the roughly triangular site have started and stopped multiple times for over a quarter century now. Initially conceived as a new Crowne Plaza hotel property, construction was halted in 2000 and then again nine years later, with just a partial parking structure built. The wording of this statement all but confirms that the approved tower plans remain a future possibility, and Niagara Falls could one day see this new landmark actually constructed as first envisioned.