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GE decides it no longer needs a heliport

By adamg on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 1:09pm

The Globe reports GE has told the city and state, nope, never mind.

Odds that the city and state will now stop looking for a place to put a heliport?

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Comments

By John Costello on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 1:15pm.

I was hoping Jeff Immelt was going to drop turkeys to us poor GE subsidizers next Thanksgiving.

By Turkey Liberation Front on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 1:39pm.

WKRP 'fake news' for entertainment purposes seems to have spread this misconception.

In reality our mastery of flight and the majestic terror it inspires in the hearts of our foes is unquestionable.

IMAGE(http://www.sacnaturecenter.net/images/Turkey_in_flight.jpg)

By Gary C on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 1:51pm.

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By Elmer on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:08pm.

IMAGE(http://www.sacnaturecenter.net/images/Turkey_in_flight.jpg)

By roadman on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:28pm.

if dropped out of a helicopter?

By Scottie on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 2:16pm.

If GE could just master the technology to teleport, they wouldn't need a heliport!

By anon² on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:35pm.

Fusion first

By BostonDog on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:41pm.

Maybe then they could transport the pollutants out of the Housatonic river instead of trying to weasel out of cleaning it the normal way.

By Homer Simpson on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:44pm.

Mmmmmm, Housatonic ...

By Kaz on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 5:33pm.

He's a tonic
She's a tonic
We're a tonic

Wouldn't you like to be a tonic too?

By anon on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 3:49pm.

Add this to the Olympics, Indy car race, St Patrick Parade route change etc.

By Elmer on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 4:36pm.

By Angry Dan on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 5:40pm.

Traded for another sweet tax break to be named later?

By Miss Hoover on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 3:24am.

I hear those things are awfully loud.

By Lyle Lanley on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 11:08am.

It glides as softly as a cloud

By Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 5:05pm.

Is there a chance the track could bend?

By Elmer on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 10:54pm.

By cybah on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 8:58pm.

We're still paying for GE anyways. Its not like we lowered the tax break they got because they didn't get a helipad.

Give it a year, after the election and you'll quietly see this come up again.

By Anonymous on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 10:14pm.

GE HQ has been downsized to 600 positions. The original deal was premised on 800 jobs, 700 of which were already filled by employees relocating from CT.

I don't have the details of the deal so i can't calculate how this development affects clawing back tax abatement,

By ChrisInEastie on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 6:22pm.

someone in the PR department at GE got their way.

Odds Marty and/or Charlie had a hand in it since everyone hated the idea and election season is coming?

By Ron Newman on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 6:53pm.

A boat from Fan Pier to Logan could serve lots of Fort Point and Seaport businesses, not just GE. (Doubly so if the heliport can be at Logan.)

By bostonbob235 on Tue, 02/14/2017 - 7:36pm.

You can already take a water taxi from Fan Pier to the airport. I do it all the time. Summer or winter.

By blues_lead on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 11:16am.

Does the silver line not work for you?

By GoSoxGo on Wed, 02/15/2017 - 12:20am.

to improve the SL1.

And then I woke up...

By FootPad on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 4:04pm.

employees to the ranks of Boston job seekers...

"It will also shed 25 percent of its corporate staff, meaning 1,500 job losses at its Boston headquarters."