Gov. Deval Patrick said Wednesday he was “disappointed and frustrated” to learn that Fidelity Investments planned to take more than 1,000 jobs out of Massachusetts, adding that the mutual funds giant gave his administration little advance notice of the move, The Associated Press reports.
Patrick, who is on an overseas trade mission in London, issued the statement one day after Fidelity announced it would be shutting down its Marlborough facility over the next two years.
“Massachusetts has been good to Fidelity just as Fidelity has been good to Massachusetts,” Patrick said. “Their leadership was in my office recently and is in frequent touch with (Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki), and yet they gave us little notice of this decision and no opportunity to compete for these jobs.”
Anne Crowley, a spokeswoman for Fidelity, said the company had made the state aware of its plans.
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