The all-out scramble to lure GE’s headquarters to Boston still sticks in my craw. Five years on from that debacle, there’s a budding campaign to officials from throwing away our hard-earned tax dollars on such dubious corporate recruiting campaigns.
Ryan Enright has been active in Boston commercial real estate since 1997, and during that time he’s brokered more than 800 transactions in the core downtown neighborhoods. Enright joined JLL Boston’s downtown leasing team nearly five years ago, after 17 years representing Equity Office Properties’ Boston portfolio.
A life science and tech campus including the future General Electric headquarters in Boston could reach 650,000 square feet, the new owners of the property said.
The rich subsidy package that brought General Electric’s headquarters to the Boston waterfront was not long ago hailed as a landmark win for both the city and the Bay State as a whole.
