RUBIUS THERAPEUTICS was approved for a potential $9 million in tax incentives by the R.I. Commerce Corp. Thursday. The company plans to retrofit a Smithfield manufacturing facility through a $155 million investment.
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Commerce Corp., the state’s economic development agency, on Thursday approved a package of tax reductions and incentives potentially worth more than $9 million for Rubius Therapeutics Inc. to open a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Smithfield. In return, the Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company has pledged to create 160 jobs at the site with…