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Anatomy of a Deal

Why Did General Electric Move from Connecticut to Massachusetts?

Norton Francis, Megan Randall, Sarah Gault
May 9, 2017
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This fact sheet describes the more than $275 million economic development package that the state of Massachusetts and City of Boston offered to General Electric to influence its relocation from Fairfield, Connecticut to Boston in 2016.

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