By Warren McNeil,

Maybe you didn’t know that Google had an office in Waterloo. Well they do and they are now moving their office to downtown Kitchener to the Lang Tannery building. They are planning on making the move this year. I think this is a smart move on Google’s part because they are moving into an area that is undergoing huge changes. I have blogged in the past about the new condo developments in the downtown core. Some of the upcoming condo developments are the Arrow lofts (Auburn) and the Centre City Condominiums (Andrin). One of the best things about this move is that apparently Google is aggressively hiring so  they need the larger space. It’s always a good thing when companies are growing instead of downsizing or shutting down.

The Google projects in Waterloo are currently the upcoming Chrome operating system, HTML5 programming language and the “Buzz” social networking service. For me being a techy I find this really exciting. The more technology that surrounds me the better. I am really interested in seeing what rich media capabilities HTML5 will have. I heard that it is really going to give Flash a run for it’s money. This could be made up hype but nevertheless there is some buzz out there about the controversy between Apple supporting html5 on their devices and not flash.. But I digress!!

In addition to Google, Waterloo is probably more well known for being the home of Research in Motion the makers of the Blackberry. FYI, RIM just released the new Backberry Torch so I hope everyone is going to buy one!

Doesn’t Kitchener Waterloo sound like a cool place to live?

If you are a techy and you are looking for somewhere to live, you might want to consider Kitchener-Waterloo or Cambridge.

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By Warren McNeil

This second shift will start next March and they will be hiring 800 workers. They are doubling the production of the plants vehicles. With this addtion of new workers, Toyota will have around 6500 workers in Woodstock and Cambridge. Between the Woodstock and Cambridge plant, they have the capacity to build 420,000 vehicles a year.

I have a couple of friends that work at Toyota and I am happy to hear that the company is still going strong and they are not having the same problems as the other car companies have had over the past year.  Woodstock is only about 20-30 minutes from Kitchener.

I love my Toyota and would buy another one in the future. I just wish they would come out with a nice sports car. I like the Supra but they’re not producing them at the present time. They need to build something along the lines of a Nissan 370Z. Anyways, I digress.

Source: http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/642322

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 Warren & Melanie McNeil | Sales Representatives, Team McNeil
Re/Max Twin City Realty, Brokerage ( 519.579.4110 
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