Rogers Park, Brampton (formerly

Nortel Nortel Networks Corporation (Nortel), formerly Northern Telecom Limited, was a Canadian multinational telecommunications and data networking equipment manufacturer headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It was founded in Montreal, Quebec, ...

Brampton Centre and Northern Electric Brampton Works) is a business complex and the corporate offices of

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. It is not the company head office, which is located in

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. Located at 8200 Dixie Road, the building was acquired by Rogers in 2006 from

, which used the building as their global headquarters since 1997. The building, built by

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, has of space on 63 acres of land. The building houses 5,000 Rogers staff., 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

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headquarters. This is Rogers' second building bought from companies that failed or are failing. The headquarters Rogers Building was acquired from bankrupt

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. Rogers Park was acquired from the liquidation of Nortel's assets.

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