LEGO’s existing education office in Back Bay, Boston. As Connecticut continues to lick its wounds following LEGO’s announced plans to relocate from its longtime U.S. headquarters in Enfield to Boston, there will be plenty of debate about what drove yet another major employer to flee the state. Not helping is the fact that just one week earlier, Campbell Soup Co. announced it was closing subsidiary Pepperidge Farm’s Norwalk headquarters as the processed food and snack maker consolidates operations in New Jersey. Some will blame Connecticut’s usual weaknesses — high costs of living and doing business and over-regulation. Greg Bordonaro While those remain significant challenges that policymakers should address, they apparently weren’t the driving factors behind LEGO’s decision to abandon its Enfield home of nearly 50 years and move 740 employees 100 miles northeast to Boston. In an announcement about the pending move — to be completed in 2026 — Skip Kodak, LEGO Group’s Americas president, described Boston as “one of the best cities in the world to attract and retain talent,” and that the city’s “world-class academic institutions, skilled workforce and great quality of life makes it an ideal location for our U.S. head office.” It’s the same message […]
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