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February 14, 2019
GE scraps grand plans for Fort Point headquarters
The company will not build that dramatic 12-story building, and it’s going to instead help the state sell a pricey parcel on the Boston waterfront.
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August 9, 2017
General Electric’s Fort Point headquarters won’t fully open until 2021
The company had once been expected to wrap construction on its three-building HQ in 2018. Now it’s splitting the work into two phases, the second of which won’t be finished for four years.
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June 1, 2017
Necco Court pedestrian bridge might get major makeover
General Electric is out with a $1.5 million plan to transform the more than 100-year-old span in Fort Point into a kind of lounge for employees. It was either that or tear it down.
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April 3, 2017
GE sets a date for its big Fort Point groundbreaking
General Electric will officially break ground on its 2.4-acre Boston headquarters next month. Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh are expected to be the guests of honor.
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February 14, 2017
Boston helipad idea, RIP?
State and city officials have for a little more than a year been scrambling to find a suitable site for a public-access helipad in downtown Boston. The landing was seen as quasi-essential for General Electric’s new Fort Point headquarters. But now the company has discovered Logan Airport.
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January 23, 2017
Boston heliport plan moving forward with new task force
State officials late last week announced the formation of a group to explore the location of a publicly owned heliport in downtown Boston. The landing complex would be the first of its kind in the area since 1999.
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November 17, 2016
Southie pier will likely host Boston helipad
The city and the state have picked a South Boston pier for the first public-use helipad in downtown Boston in 16 years. The landing platform behind the Blue Hills Bank Pavilion is tied to General Electric’s future Fort Point headquarters.
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November 14, 2016
Here’s where Boston’s new helipad might be located
It’s an open secret that the incentive package used to lure General Electric’s headquarters to the city included the possibility of a helipad for the company’s executives (and the public’s odd use, too).
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November 2, 2016
GE's Fort Point headquarters clears major hurdle
The Boston Planning and Development Agency on Thursday evening approved General Electric's 2.4-acre, $200,000,000 campus after postponing a vote last month because of a procedural snafu. The vote sets it on course to a 2018 opening.
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October 21, 2016
City postpones big vote on GE headquarters
The Boston Planning and Development Agency delayed its big vote Thursday evening on General Electric’s three-building, 2.4-acre Fort Point campus following a very particular protest from those opposed to the development.
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October 20, 2016
Here comes General Electric's Fort Point HQ
The Boston Planning and Development Authority is expected Thursday evening to approve General Electric’s titanic headquarters development in Fort Point. The formal nod would mark perhaps the last big hurdle for the three-building complex.
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October 13, 2016
General Electric decides to keep Fort Point bridge
GE was going to dismantle the more than 100-year-old pedestrian bridge over Necco Court as part of its massive headquarters redevelopment. Some people were none too pleased with that decision.
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October 4, 2016
General Electric in Fort Point bridge brouhaha
GE's plan to demolish a pedestrian bridge that dates to the first decade of the 20th century as part of the company’s massive Fort Point headquarters development has upset some locals. There's not much they can do about it, though. Or is there?
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August 2, 2016
GE’s Fort Point HQ: Latest renderings and details
The first renderings of General Electric’s much-ballyhooed new headquarters in Boston’s Fort Point have dropped. Look closely: There’s one big thing missing (but plenty of greenery and glass).
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June 24, 2016
GE’s Fort Point plans include 12-story building
The company has released fresh details about its future headquarters. The biggest addition would be a new 12-story, 293,000-square-foot, glass-sheathed building housing what GE calls a "vertical village."
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March 25, 2016
GE's Boston Headquarters Will Definitely Lack One Thing
Fresh details are out regarding the much-ballyhooed relocation of the corporation from Connecticut. General Electric has picked Fort Point for its campus, for one thing. For another, take the T.