Just 24 hours after learning it would lose one of its largest commercial taxpayers, Pawtucket is now preparing for life after Hasbro.

Following months of discourse and speculation, Rhode Island-based toymaker Hasbro officially announced on Monday it will move its headquarters to Boston. For more than a century, the company has operated out of Pawtucket, with its main campus currently located on Newport Avenue.

“It wasn’t a surprise for those of us who have been involved,” Grebien said. “It would have been more of a surprise if they stayed—just because of the signs that have been out there for the last several years.”

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