Comment on GE’s Relocation: Great for GE, Not as Great for Boston’s Taxpayers

GE’s Relocation: Great for GE, Not as Great for Boston’s Taxpayers

Kindra Clineff / Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism General Electric is the latest company to give up the suburbs for the city. News of GE’s move from its 1970s-style corporate campus in suburban Fairfield, Connecticut, to downtown Boston’s Seaport District has urbanists like me swooning. After all, it confirms much of what we’ve been saying for years: A massive corporation is moving to a dense, vibrant, walkable city center with abundant transit, lots of talent, superb universities, and great quality of place.

 

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