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Thanks to Sen. Baucus, Montana officials happily help GE open $7M center in Billings

January 24, 2009 /

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"A lot came out of the 2007 economic-development summit in Butte, and this operations center is one of them," Sen.Baucus http://baucus.senate.gov/ said. "They looked very aggressively and thoroughly at the major Montana communities. My main job was just to get GE to Montana."

Nearly two years of planning and building came to a close Friday afternoon as General Electric http://www.ge.com/ unveiled its new operations center in Billings.

The $7 million, 48,000-square-foot center, called the General Electric Montana Center of Excellence, is a branch of GE Capital, the company’s financial-services division, and will monitor collateral on commercial loans and leases. About 100 employees have been hired, and GE Capital plans to hire another 50 to 100 later this year.

By ZACH BENOIT
Of The Gazette Staff

Full Story: http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/01/24/news/local/26-gecenter.txt