Bristol-Myers eyes R.I. for drug making plant

[Lone Ranger]

I still don't think it would hurt if we started calling ourselves "the speed-dial state."

[CtownMikey]

http://www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/120067

[CtownMikey]

isnt the decision being made on June 1st??

[Frankie811]

isnt the decision being made on June 1st??

They said June

[KRC]

They picked Devens, MA. While I'm disappointed that RI wasn't picked, it does again show that New England certianly isn't the economic dead end people from other parts of the country like to think we are.

[mental757]

this sucks. I read the article this morning - Oh well. Too bad the site in MA wasn't at least closer to RI - I agree with KRC though - big win for the NE region.

[CtownMikey]

i cant find the article.. but this is still good news for our region

[mental757]

for some strange reason, I really thought we were going to land this deal. Things seemed to be going so well for RI lately.

[damus]

They picked Devens, MA. While I'm disappointed that RI wasn't picked, it does again show that New England certianly isn't the economic dead end people from other parts of the country like to think we are.

Yeah .. I think the fact that many of the best colleges in the world are in New England don't hurt its chances for landing big businesses. It also has a lot of top tier public schools, with Uconn obviously being the top one of that bunch. For that reason alone the area's a good place to do business. Is this a low skill job, being manufacturing, or do the people involved at the plant need to have a certain level of expertise?

Other than that, the south is a cheaper place to do business, which is why we lost the textile industry (that they're now losing to China among other places) years ago.

[Dan]

Where's Frankie?

R.I. loses to Mass. for Bristol-Myers drug plant

[Frankie811]

If the state loses out, I won't be surprised, and I'll already know why. If we do lose, I'll post the behind the scenes stuff here.

Well!!????

[CtownMikey]

the article already stated their reasons why.... unless there is stuff that was left out