Halifax

"“In entrepreneurship... you either see the forest and no trees, or all you see is the trees individually and no forest,” Robert explained. “He is an incredible forest thinker, whereas I am exactly the opposite—I only see the trees. I’d probably have a hard time running a business in Dartmouth because it’s not in Halifax."

"“The problem with land is it just doesn’t generate any income, so how do you service the debt when you’re buying a piece of land?” His idea: use the cash flow from Ocean Games to finance the debt he’d taken on in buying pieces of land around Halifax. “That sounds great in practice,” he said in recalling the scheme, with some laughter, “but it didn’t work because the pinball business didn’t generate enough income to do anything more than service its own debt.”"