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unique shopping and eateries, among others – and a host of small businesses I’d like to discuss shortly – but I want to focus on your goal to develop as the ‘Mobile Work Capital of Canada.’ Can you please ell the readers how this came to be? FM: Effort, effort, effort. I do a great deal of travelling and reaching out to meet with business leaders. We reach out and we find opportunities like Web.com. As Mayor Dicks mentioned earlier, we had the Virtual Job Fair here recently. One of our councillors, John Guthro, has worked from home, telecommuting for years and it was his brain child years ago to promote New Glasgow as the ‘Mobile Work Capital’ of Canada. The Virtual Job Fair was actually a proposal he had and we jumped on it. It was held at Glasgow Square Theatre, a great venue for businesses
One of my jobs is to attract businesses to that park and drive development and that involves a lot of travel, a lot of outreach to talk to a lot of different industries, different companies. It could be distribution, retail, or service as the park is zoned for almost anything. Boston Pizza is coming to New Glasgow and we’re very pleased with that. Again Crombie REIT played a critical role in this recruitment. It would not have happened without them – they were the driving force. The brick and mortar side of things is well-established in New Glasgow with shops and services. Y You have a regional hospital, regional library, banking institutions, Cineplex Cinemas, Big-box stores, and
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