[RyeJay]

It's bad enough that Halifax's downtown must withstand stagnation from drained demand due to the city's many growing business parks -- now these government departments are all moving.

Absurd.

How in God's name can this be revenue neutral? Is it magically accounting any hypothetical spin-off developments for the villages and towns to which these departments are locating? As far as I know, there aren't any municipal plans for urbanising in Nova Scotia, outside of HRM. These re-located government departments may very well, upon their completion, be amongst continued economic inactivity.

What wonderful waste.