Posted May 13, 2011, 10:28 PM
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Consultant for Albion Power Centre develops vision
STELLARTON – Paul Brown sells a vision, business solutions; not just dirt.
Brown is a development consultant, with more than 30 years of experience, hired by the Town of Stellarton to develop the Albion Power Centre.
Brown talks to businesses interested in locating to the centre about what the 800-acre land has to offer their company as well as its employees. He tells them that Pictou County offers affordable housing, highway access, great recreation with the Wellness Centre and a very good family lifestyle.
“I’m not selling dirt,” said Brown. “I’m talking to business about what they want and need.”
When Brown, who resides in Thailand, got the call from the town asking if he was interested in the large task of developing the 800 acres piece of land, he had to consider the existing infrastructure.
He said since Pictou County has no governing body to attract businesses, nor an existing database of businesses, retailer or industries interested in locating Pictou County, the task of developing the park would be difficult.
“So, I said ‘What do we have from a physical side?’ I quickly established the primary and most important thing that we have is that the Trans-Canada runs through Pictou County,” said Brown.
The two-exit access is key in developing a retail and commercial park, said Brown.
“Well this is the only two-exit access between Sydney and Quebec City,” he said, adding Pictou County’s location on the Trans-Canada is close to key marine entry points to the province, North Sydney and Caribou.
Phase I of the project, said Brown, is the land located between the highway and the Lawrence Boulevard. That land has been developed for retail, with a strip mall, due to begin construction this summer, Central Supplies, a big box retailer, the identity of which he could not reveal, and a food retailer as well.
Brown said the identity of the food retailer he couldn’t discuss, but he did say it is not Sobeys or Superstore.
Phase II of the project will begin to develop commercial property. Street three is currently under construction and Brown has had an interest in a majority of the property divided into plots of land.
He said the park will also include parkland, streams, picnicking area and walking and biking trails that Brown is looking to connect with the existing Albion Trail.
“We are trying to get highway traffic but you are also trying to bring in a reason, a rationale for people to say ‘Let’s go to Stellarton for the day,’” said Brown.
He said Albion Power Centre development is broken up into retail, commercial and industrial so the infrastructure will grow in all segments.
“Phase III becomes what I would call business retail/wholesale,” said Brown, adding it has the land to develop for the next 10 to 15 years
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http://www.ngnews.ca/News/Local/2011...elops-vision/1
food retailer is neither sobeys or superstore....hmmmm any ideas?
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