New lease signed by GE Digital opens shared office with ProJo
By: The Associated Press
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – General Electric has signed a lease to open a new office in downtown Providence for its GE Digital software division.
The Providence Journal reports that GE Digital computer programmers will be sharing the same historic building used by the newspaper. The information technology office will be on the third floor of the 1934-built Providence Journal Building.
GE announced in June its plans to open a Rhode Island branch office, several months after announcing it was moving its corporate headquarters to Boston from Fairfield, Connecticut.
It has since opened a temporary Providence office.
The company has agreed to lease 12,000 square feet in the Journal Building, enough to accommodate 50 employees.
The lease gives GE Digital an option to expand to 20,000 square feet, enough room for 100 employees.
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