Although there has been no direct contact between the two, officials in Worcester want Hasbro to consider moving to the city. And they’ll soon have a nice, new office building overlooking the planned Polar Park they think could be the perfect spot.

Emails obtained by Worcester Business Journal show the city wants to court the toy manufacturer. If successful, it would be the second high profile business the city will have lured away from Pawtucket.

Worcester successfully lured the Pawtucket Red Sox to the city last year, pitching a $240 million ballpark and mixed use development that will open in 2021.

In an April 23 email he sent to Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito’s office, Worcester’s Chief Development Officer Michael Traynor asked for the state’s help bringing Hasbro to Worcester.

"We are very interested in bringing Hasbro to Worcester; both to the Left Field Office building you heard about and their manufacturing operations as well," he wrote in the email, according to the Worcester Business Journal. The Left Field Office is a 96,000-square-foot space that, once built, will overlook the ballpark.

Hasbro has said it is considering leaving Rhode Island, and in an interview on WPRO radio Gov. Gina Raimondo said Massachusetts has been “aggressively courting” the toy-maker.

The Massachusetts Office of Business development told the Journal that it is “working to establish dialogue with the company.”

In an April 19 email, Jacob Sanders, who handles intergovernmental and municipal initiatives for Worcester, told the city manager’s office, told Massachusetts Digital Games Institute Executive Director Timothy Loew that the city has already made "preliminary inroads" with Hasbro, according to the Journal.

In a statement released Tuesday the city said it is not “formally pursuing Hasbro.”

“The extent of the city’s solicitation was a communication from Assistant Chief Development Officer Peter Dunn to the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, in which he stated that should the commonwealth be engaging Hasbro in dialogue; the city of Worcester would be interested in participating. There have been no further conversations or developments on the matter,” the city said in a statement.