GE picks a waterside location for Boston headquarters

GE picks a waterside location for Boston headquarters

BOSTON – General Electric selected a location on the Fort Point Channel in South Boston's Seaport District for the site of its new headquarters, and said about 800 people would be located in a three-building complex there once it's finished in 2018.

The roughly 2.5-acre site, owned by Procter & Gamble's Gillette unit, is off Necco Street, just south of Summer Street, and currently has two older and mostly empty buildings on it as well as an open parking lot, GE said Thursday in a statement.