"Planning to open one of their sleek superstores at 1321 Ste. Catherine St. W., Apple Inc. is investing heavily, as always, in design. It would be a nice touch, the company thought, to simplify the look of the shop by getting rid of the three parking meters out front.
So Apple made Ville-Marie borough an offer: "three meters, $3 an hour, so many hours a week, carry the 3 .... we'll give you about $35,000 to cover the lost revenue from those meters over five years. How about it?"
The Apple zealots who refer to a certain enormous West Coast software company as "the evil empire" can know nothing of Ville-Marie bureraucrats. The default mode in Montreal is "non," and that's what the borough promptly said to Apple, La Presse reported..."
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