Quincy Infill and Small Developments

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yeah yeah they approved the tax breaks but here's the money exchange:

Councilor-at-large Nina Liang welcomed the deal, which she said provided an incentive for the developer to provide apartments at "market rate."

"Everything right now is above (market rate) because I think demand is making it so" Liang said.

"... It looks like, off of this, it would be 20 years where they would have to make all of these units market rate," she continued. "Not above, not related to demand ‒ but saying, over the course of 20 years, even though the incentive is only 13 years, for 20 years, they're going to make sure these units are market rate, correct?"

Deputy Planning Director Rob Stevens confirmed Liang's interpretation.
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She didn't run for reelection so it's kind of a moot point but I'm begging for a follow-up where someone asks Councilor Liang what "market rate" means - it sure doesn't sound like it means what she thinks it means.
 
Is she confused? Are these units being subsidized by a tax break?
 
In the agenda for tonight's planning board meeting: an MBTA communities act project at 90 Columbia St. 3 story building with a daycare and swim school on the first floor, 6 units on top of it. 25 parking spaces.

Currently a single story office building hosting a printing company with 20 parking spaces (and a rotting boat that's sat there for as long as I can remember)
 
KCasiglio said:

Koch wants to buy the Eastern Nazarene campus to prevent it from being developed into high density housing, after 600 units had previously been proposed and shot down.
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Wow, quite a shock to me that Eastern Nazarene College closed last May. I knew several people who graduated from there, and my wife grew up in that church denomination. Unfortunately the small colleges in this country are challenged with declining enrollment and increased operating expenses, and some are closing as a result.
 
A first floor parking garage here is so unfortunate. This is exactly the type of place that should be leaning hard into transit and walk/bikability. Yes it's a Quirk hellscape northeast of there but this is still Quincy Center and much more urban in the other directions.
 
KCasiglio said:
In the agenda for tonight's planning board meeting: an MBTA communities act project at 90 Columbia St. 3 story building with a daycare and swim school on the first floor, 6 units on top of it. 25 parking spaces.

Currently a single story office building hosting a printing company with 20 parking spaces (and a rotting boat that's sat there for as long as I can remember)
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A franchisee of a nationwide childcare and early learning center hopes to build a three-story project in Quincy that combines childcare, a swim school and apartments under one roof.

But does the plan have enough parking for everything it wants to accomplish?

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When a planning board member asked the applicant’s team to parse the number of staffers with the number of parking spaces available, Jarmel said many staffers at other locations carpool or take public transportation. [the site is aprox. .3 miles from QA]

“It’s just the income level, the compensation that’s given, many of them don’t have cars,” he said.

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There would be four two-bedroom apartments, one three-bedroom apartment and one one-bedroom apartment, ranging from 967 square feet to 1,400 square feet.
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Frequently shared the bus with some of my child's daycare staff when she was of that age. One was even sometimes the bus driver! (The pope should canonize anyone who can do double duty as a public bus driver and then daycare teacher in a single day)

It should be noted, this is a dead-end side street. Who cares if parents park on the street to drop their kid off?
 
KCasiglio said:



Frequently shared the bus with some of my child's daycare staff when she was of that age. One was even sometimes the bus driver! (The pope should canonize anyone who can do double duty as a public bus driver and then daycare teacher in a single day)

It should be noted, this is a dead-end side street. Who cares if parents park on the street to drop their kid off?
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An addendum to this ... we should have more facilities and other kid amenities like this in dense neighborhoods across the city so that parents don't have to drive their kids halfway across the metro to shuttle them between their activities.
 
Apologies for using the Quincy thread as a catch-all here, but a great summary of south shore projects from PL:

10 Developments to Watch on the South Shore in 2026

1) 10 Plain St, Braintree: 752 unit 3A project
2) 412 Summer St, Abington: 198 units at the Abington CR station
3) 4 Franklin St, Milton: 92 unit 40B project
4) 55 General McConville Way, Quincy: New Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ambulatory center
5) 101 General McConville Way, Quincy: 300 units and a Trader Joe's
6) Jackson Square, Weymouth: 200 units and 12k sqft of commercial
7) Brant Rock, Marshfield: 45 residential + 5 commercial units
8) 189 and 193 Nantasket Ave, Hull: 132 units + 9,300 sqft commercial space
9) 3 Parcels in Plymouth: 163 Condo 40B project
10) South Shore Plaza, Braintree: 325 units

I worry about Braintree bringing 1100 units online while still being thoroughly anti-urbanist in their planning and design.
 
stick n move said:

Griffin Capital Begins Construction on OZ-Funded Multifamily Project Near Boston​


Griffin Capital Begins Construction on OZ-Funded Multifamily Project Near Boston


“Private real estate manager Griffin Capital Company LLC, together with their joint venture development partner Hanover Company, broke ground on Hanover Quincy Center, a 297-unit multifamily development in Quincy, Mass. This is the company’s 28th property within a federally designated qualified opportunity zone and is financed with proceeds from one of its sponsored OZ funds.

The seven-story community will be situated at the heart of Quincy’s historic city center, offering tenants, according to the company, excellent public transit connectivity and proximity to some of the most desirable retail amenities in the area………”


altswire.com

Griffin Capital Begins Construction on OZ-Funded Multifamily Project Near Boston - AltsWire

Private real estate manager Griffin Capital Company LLC, together with their joint venture development partner Hanover Company, broke ground on Hanover
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awood91 said:
Behold: a 4-over-1!!! The only thing worse than a 5-over-1 :cry:
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It's replacing a duplex so I'm trying to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good, and I've gone on in this thread about my loathing of Avalon's car-centric approach to density, but yeah, man. Yet another large, transit-proximate development in Quincy with massive wasted potential. Who would want something mixed used and transit oriented when you have the T and BJs down the street, a corner store and a chinese restaurant across the street, elementary school, middle school, and a fantastic park all within walking distance, direct bus service to the Blue Hills and South Shore Plaza....

sigh. More business for the autobody shops instead.
 
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