Will Boston get a helipad?
City officials included it in the General Electric incentive package.
Now that General Electric is coming to Boston, will the city get a helipad?
Boston’s downtown business community hasn’t had a public-use helipad for more than 15 years, reports The Boston Globe. The General Electric incentive package included up to $120 million in state-funded infrastructure improvements, such as “public helicopter landing facilities,’’ according to documents from Governor Charlie Baker’s office obtained by the Globe on Wednesday.
“Boston is one of the few major cities that I’ve visited that doesn’t have some form of downtown heliport capacity,’’ Jim Rooney, chief executive of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, told the Globe. “It’s time to consider this as a transportation system amenity.’’
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