[wtby4000]

Originally Posted by JayCT

The reason these jobs are going to Rhode Island is that they directly relate to the divisions GE has in Boston and there are trains that go directly between the two cities. Otherwise the jobs would have ended up in Boston, near their division. It is good news for Providence. Jay

The jobs could have just as easily gone to Lynn, which is also easily accessible to Boston by train and has a long history with GE. Instead, GE has been cutting jobs in Lynn.

[tysmith95]

Originally Posted by wtby4000

The jobs could have just as easily gone to Lynn, which is also easily accessible to Boston by train and has a long history with GE. Instead, GE has been cutting jobs in Lynn.

Providence is nice. Lynn is a ****hole that no young techie making a decent salary would want to live in. Also the towns around Lynn are more expensive than the towns around Providence.

[wtby4000]

and now McDonald's will be relocating from suburban Oak Brook, Illinois to central Chicago - a similar move to what GE is doing

[BPt111]

GE site set for sales push - Connecticut Post

[GregW]

I would have been surprised if GE had moved to Schenectady, NY. Boston makes sense as it is saturated with high tech graduates and researchers. This suits GE's slide from manufacturing to management.

[BPt111]

General Electric Co. released detailed plans on Monday for its new headquarters in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood, including a new 12-story building, indoor and outdoor public spaces, and a GE-themed museum.

In total, the 2.4-acre campus will include three buildings, including two rehabilitated Necco candy manufacturing facilities, providing 388,700 square feet of space. It is set to open in 2018, with company executives moving into a temporary office on Farnsworth Street in Fort Point later this month. The project's architect is Gensler.

“GE expects our new HQ will transform the existing, unused site into a hub of technology, innovation, and intellectual stimulation as well as become a new meaningful destination on the city’s Harborwalk,” Ann Klee, GE’s head of Boston development and operators, said in a statement.

The new building will provide more than 293,000 square feet of space, according to a letter submitted by GE (NYSE: GE) to the Boston Redevelopment Authority. The first floor and a portion of the second floor will feature a museum dedicated to the company’s history and future. The ground floor will also have a visitor reception area and co-working space open to the public, as well as a coffee bar. The upper floors will contain offices, with the roof sporting a terrace with a garden area.

GE plans to rehabilitate the two brick buildings at 5 and 6 Necco Court into 95,400 square feet of gross floor area, connecting the facilities through a shared lobby. Like the new building, the roofs of the two buildings will have a garden-type area. Their ground floors will have laboratory classrooms and a bistro on the waterfront, available to the public through a pedestrian-only area. A new bridge will connect the three buildings.









http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/ne...ew-boston.html

[BobNJ1960]

Beautiful!

[BPt111]

Goodbye CT Boston is now official new home for GE

General Electric celebrates first day in Boston - Connecticut Post

[SJNE17]

CT can expect more of that. A good start would be to reverse the taxation plan that motivated GE to offer up a big FU to the state, then cut all state agency staffing in half, pay cuts for the legislature, terminate the pension plan, and start living hand to mouth as opposed to feasting on a trough of lobster & steak with borrowed money.

[HumpDay]

Originally Posted by SJNE17

CT can expect more of that. A good start would be to reverse the taxation plan that motivated GE to offer up a big FU to the state, then cut all state agency staffing in half, pay cuts for the legislature, terminate the pension plan, and start living hand to mouth as opposed to feasting on a trough of lobster & steak with borrowed money.

The problem is why would they vote to cut their own pay as well as terminate the pension plan? It's not beneficial to them and their families, regardless if it's the key to our budget deficits or regardless if it's for the common good; they're not going to pass it because it'll affect their own lives but they sure as h*** didn't mind laying off someone else's job. It just proves that our own elected officials don't care about the people who elected them but they'd rather fulfill their own selfish desires. But once election season comes around they'll tell everyone what they want to hear like John Rowland promising to elimate the income tax to get votes but once he was in that chair at the capital, he didn't bother delivering his own promises.