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Posted by: ITNovaScotia Admin	Monday, October 09, 2006
By AMY PUGSLEY FRASER City Hall Reporter The fate of a proposed $230-million building slated for Bedford will be decided Tuesday night at a public hearing at city hall. Research in Motion, the makers of the ubiquitous wireless handheld computer cellphones called BlackBerrys, wants to put down roots on a 20-hectare property near the Hammonds Plains Road-Bicentennial Highway interchange. The Ontario company, otherwise known as RIM, is keen to get started on its Nova Scotia headquarters, which would employ 1,200 people at its technical support centre. But, before it can do that, the public gets to weigh in on whether city hall should bend the rules to accommodate their 33-metre-high, seven-storey structure... See the full story at The ChronicleHerald.ca

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Re: RIM proposal to go before public

By Tom R. on Monday, October 09, 2006

so let me get this right - the province's capital is going to have to debate on whether a seven storey building, which will be seen from the highway on one of the main routes for business/tourist travellers heading into the city? no wonder so few companies want to move here. here's something that would catch the eyes of potential investors over and over again, demonstrating that an internationally successful company like RIM thinks NS is a good place to do business, and you people in halifax are gonna debate about it because it might be too big and flashy for the neighborhood. foolish.

Re: RIM proposal to go before public	By John Kimber on Monday, October 09, 2006
Some people are not in favour of big buildings in residential areas. Perhaps those kinds of structures are best left in business parks outside of town. Bedford is a quiet area for families, not for businesses to just come in and bend the rules because they have money.