by The Regional Municipality is getting $4.75 million from the province to move its downtown Sydney fire station to make way for the new NSCC Marconi Campus.
Chief administrative officer Marie Walsh says the provincial government negotiated fairly and agreed to give the municipality $4 million for the old fire station, plus $750,000 for the land.
Council voted unanimously in February to move the fire station to a new location at the corner of George and Pitt Streets.
Walsh says because the municipality already owns the new site, all the money can go into building a better station that will be up to the latest building code and accessible.