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Originally Posted by someone123
In Halifax it often seems to be the public sector driving suburban development whether it's a preference for highway development, the Bayer's Lake service places (Access NS and the health one IIRC), the RIM/IBM office park, or the federal government tearing down its historic office buildings downtown. I associate this suburban mentality with older and more rural politicians and I think we will see it lose favour in the coming years when the median NS voter becomes an urban Millennial (and many will be immigrants with whom historical entitlement politics likely won't register so much).
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I can tell you with certainty that the move of Access NS to BLIP into the failed furniture store building was driven by what the bean counters and DTIR considered a great deal on the lease of the premises. In their rather elemental manner of client analysis they considered it a wash in terms of convenience and accessibility compared to where they previously were located even though at the time (and still today to a great extent) it required a vehicle to visit. You need to remember that the public service generally and PNS public servants in particular have very little understanding of the importance of client service and location of facilities as part of that.
What I do not know is if the move of federal govt facilities to Bayers Lake are ones that require client access like Access NS does. If you are audited by CRA, do you need to visit the new CRA bunker out there? I do not know. I suspect CBSA is not a very customer-centric organization and god forbid if anyone needs to visit their facility out there. The under-construction NS Health outpatient facility seemed a not-horrible idea at the time I suppose, at least based on acquisition costs as compared to the south end of the peninsula, but it has nothing nearby at the moment that would add to the experience of having to visit there - it is quite literally in the middle of a desert of crushed granite. It assumes that everyone will be driven there. That likely also assures that parking facilities will be inadequate.