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Atlantic Development to replace Crown Colony building with senior housing​

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“Atlantic Development is planning to knock down a vacant office building at 1600 Crown Colony Drive in Quincy and build five 55-plus condominium buildings.

The former Harvard Pilgrim building at 1600 Crown Colony Drive would be replaced with five residential buildings. The site is the latest suburban office property eyed for housing.”


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Quincy Launches School Bus Safety Program To Protect Students - The Quincy Sun

Mayor Tom Koch and the City of Quincy announce the launch of a new school bus stop-arm safety program designed to protect students as they travel to and from school and reduce dangerous driving behavior around stopped school buses. The City of Quincy has partnered with Quincy Public Schools, the...
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The City of Quincy has partnered with Quincy Public Schools, the Quincy Police Department, and BusPatrol to deploy school bus stop-arm camera technology across the local school bus fleet. The program focuses on preventing illegal school bus passings, a serious and ongoing safety risk for students as they board and exit buses at stops throughout the community.

The program will begin with a 30-day warning period starting June 1, 2026 to educate drivers and raise awareness of Massachusetts school bus stop laws. During this period, motorists who illegally pass a stopped school bus will receive warning notices by mail with no financial penalty. Full enforcement is scheduled to begin on July 1, 2026 following the conclusion of the warning period.
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A developer is proposing a 520-unit housing project next to the North Quincy MBTA station, replacing a parking lot and two Granite Telecommunications buildings under a state zoning law.

The project will not need city zoning board approval to build due to the MBTA Communities Act.

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The development at 100-150 Newport Ave [Extension]. would include 500 parking spaces, according to Hubley’s letter. Renderings show four separate multifamily buildings.
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I'm all for it. Finally a parking wasteland can serve a purpose
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There was a community meeting for this project last night and the developer was taken aback that the crowd was pushing for less on-site parking (either from an out-right reduction or leasing spaces in the massive underused lot across the street) and decoupling parking and housing prices. You love to see it.
 
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Excited to see our MacArthur Landing project taking shape! We’re now pouring concrete for the footings and foundation walls. In partnership with Quincy Mutual Group and UNION, this project at the… | Bald Hill Builders, LLC.

Excited to see our MacArthur Landing project taking shape! We’re now pouring concrete for the footings and foundation walls. In partnership with Quincy Mutual Group and UNION, this project at the corner of Chestnut & Maple in Quincy Center will bring more than 100 new apartment homes, a...
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Excited to see our MacArthur Landing project taking shape! We’re now pouring concrete for the footings and foundation walls. In partnership with Quincy Mutual Group and UNION, this project at the… | Bald Hill Builders, LLC.

Excited to see our MacArthur Landing project taking shape! We’re now pouring concrete for the footings and foundation walls. In partnership with Quincy Mutual Group and UNION, this project at the corner of Chestnut & Maple in Quincy Center will bring more than 100 new apartment homes, a...
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Reminder that the majority of what this building is replacing was a surface parking lot. 9/10 the only thing I wish is that they incorporated the Sully's sign. Though it wouldn't go with the brick facade, which I love, so maybe for the best.

Sidebar, but I did a TOD class in grad school and used this exact site for my sample project. Took more units for me to get it to pencil out so kudos to the developers
 
Yea boston and its surrounding cities are doing a really good job of filling in empty lots. Makes you think what the hell took so long.
 

520-Unit Residential Redevelopment Proposed for Former Office Campus in Quincy​

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“Plans are under review for a major multifamily redevelopment at 100 and 150 Newport Avenue Extension in Quincy, where there is a proposal to replace two largely vacant office buildings and their surface parking lots with a four-building residential community containing 520 apartments. The project would redevelop the 9.2-acre site, which currently includes approximately 250,000 square feet of office space, into three five-story residential buildings and one six-story building with podium parking, along with exterior parking, a pool courtyard, passive open space, and other resident amenities. Located adjacent to the MBTA Red Line's North Quincy Station…….”

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Curious what the parking ratio will be on the project with its adjacency to NQ. Large amount of surface parking being proposed. I know the North Quincy development required the large garage because of MBTA requirements, but here I feel like those requirements wouldn't exist. Also, I would hope they are required to improve a path to the NQ bridge along the track ROW.
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I'd also be curious to see what kind of amenities (if any) are being proposed for development with so much surface parking
 
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There was 500 parking spaces in the original proposal, though the community meeting was strongly pushing for fewer so I don't know if they've come back with amended plans.

EDIT: This is just an educated guess, but I would bet the City will try get the developer to pay for some Newport Ave Ext improvements. They came to us for a technical assistance project regarding that but we try not to do the same city two years in a row and had just done the Bluebikes expansion study.
 
Thanks. A 0.96 ratio when no retail is included and the project is directly adjacent to a frequent transit stop is steep. I know Mill Creek just proposed 1.00/1.25 down at Wollaston though and I believe that got approved.

I would hope the city pursues an improvement of Newport Ave Ext! Looking at those renderings the development is providing a small planting buffer between the street and parking (typically required by zoning anyways), but they aren't showing any improvements. If I could lay out what I would want to see
  1. YELLOW: Refresh of the Walnut Street Pedestrian bridge. Maintain the structure, but clean/paint it. New lighting and new guardrails.
  2. BLUE: Add a stair from the Newport Ave Ext. sidewalk up to Walnut Street Bridge (could be on either side of the bridge, but north side seems more feasible)
  3. GREEN: Sidewalk improvements from bridge to the Enterprise Drive intersection
  4. RED: 10' wide multi-use, protected path from Newport Ave Ext to the NQ bridge.
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This would be in conjunction with a development being required to rework/repave their 1/2 of the ROW along their property frontage. Specifically the Heritage Drive intersection is abysmal from a grading perspective.

Lastly, I would expect that right-in, right-out at the red circled curb cut. This appears to be in-between Heritage and Enterprise streets so there should not be another light added there. The project's alignment with Heritage (green circle) doesn't make a ton of sense to me for a traffic flow perspective, but ultimately that is a development manager problem.
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To number 4, I would add protected bike infrastructure connecting to the NQ bridge but that also connects to Commander Shea Blvd, to the Quincy Riverwalk segments, Marina Bay and Squantum Point Park. I wouldn't expect the developer to have to pay for all of it but it would be great and give people another recreational option when using the Blue Bikes
 
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