Just a day after revelations about New York's bid to move General Electric's headquarters, Bloomberg is reporting that Georgia is also in the market for GE. Citing unnamed sources, the business news service says that executives are planning to meet with a property agency in Atlanta in coming weeks.
Dallas is another city that’s also said to be in the running, as one of the world's largest corporations considers a move away from Connecticut. GE has almost five thousand workers in the Nutmeg state, between its Fairfield headquarters, and the Norwalk base of GE Capital.
Several states have been courting GE this summer, after it publicly announced it was exploring options for relocating its headquarters, citing Connecticut's tax policies.
Meanwhile, Governor Dannel Malloy's office hasn’t commented on the news that GE has had high-level talks on a move to New York , but Fairfield municipal officials told the Connecticut Post they believe the state is ready to counter-offer with a generous incentive package. New York ’s governor Andrew Cuomo visited GE executives in late July.
