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Business complex and the corporate offices of Rogers Communications in Brampton, Ontario
Rogers Park, Brampton
(formerly
Nortel
Brampton Centre and Northern Electric Brampton Works) is a business complex and the corporate offices of
Rogers Communications
in
Brampton
,
Ontario
. It is not the company head office, which is located in
downtown
Toronto
.
Located at 8200
Dixie Road
, the building was acquired by Rogers in 2006 from
Nortel
, which used the building as their global headquarters since 1997.
[1]
The building, designed by Texas based architects HOK
Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum
and constructed by Jackson-Lewis,
[2]
has 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m
2
) of space on 63 acres of land. The building houses 5,000 Rogers staff.,
[3]
[4]
The site was once Nortel's manufacturing facilities (Bramalea Works), built in 1963 for Northern Electric which became Northern Telecom in 1976 and Nortel Networks in 1999, and remodelled after 1996 to accommodate staff from their
Mississauga
,
Ontario
headquarters.
[5]
This is Rogers' second building bought from companies that failed or are failing. The headquarters
Rogers Building
was acquired from bankrupt
Confederation Life
. Rogers Park was acquired from the liquidation of Nortel's assets.
References
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43°42′12″N
79°42′58″W
/
43.7033°N 79.7162°W
/
43.7033; -79.7162
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historic brands
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Systems resold by
Shaw
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Some assets listed above are or were only partially owned by Rogers Communications. Refer to each individual article for detailed information.
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