Rogers Park, Brampton (formerly

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

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

Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet, with significant additional telecommunications and mass media ass ...

Brampton Brampton is a city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario, and the regional seat of the Regional Municipality of Peel. It is part of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and is a List of municipalities in Ontario#L ...

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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, designed by Texas based architects HOK

Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum HOK Group, Inc., formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum, is an American design, architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm. Founded in 1955, it is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. History Founding HOK was established ...

and constructed by Jackson-Lewis, 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

Mississauga Mississauga is a Canadian city in the province of Ontario. Situated on the north-western shore of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, it borders Toronto (Etobicoke) to the east, Brampton to the north, Milton to the northwest, ...

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

Confederation Life Confederation Life Insurance Company was a Canadian insurance company and financial services provider. Its global head office was located in Toronto in what is now the Rogers Building. The company had operations in Canada, the United States, the ...

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

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