Quincy General Developments

Quincy public safety/municipal complex, u/c, 2025.

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“The new four-story facility will be approximately 122,000 SF and is being constructed alongside the current police station. The public safety complex will comprise the City of Quincy IT Department, Fire Department administration offices, the Police Department, and the Emergency Operations Center.

Spaces configured for operational efficiency and effectiveness include a large flexible training room, secure prisoner processing, detention area, drive-thru sally port, secure evidence processing and storage, roll call room, fitness area, and offices. A training simulator and live tactical fire range will be on the lower level. This project also relocates the City’s fueling station., A secured two-story, 276-space parking garage for Quincy’s police, fire administration, and emergency management fleet as well as a First Responders Park will be part of the new headquarters. The complex is currently under construction.”

https://www.kba-architects.com/projects/public-safety/quincy-public-safety-municipal-complex/

Most recent pics I could find:












https://www.patriotledger.com/pictu...28/quincy-ma-police-headquarters/73133744007/
 
curcuas said:
This looks...really nice?
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Eh. Don't get me wrong, Quincy needs the housing units and whatever event the photos were taken at I'm sure was a good time. That being said it reminds me a lot of the big complexes out on Quarry Street. It's entirely single use, auto-oriented density with big grassy "green/open space" that is going to be sitting empty most of the time. Projects like these are part of what sours "normies" on dense housing developments. Given the proximity to Quincy Center, it really didn't have to be this way.
 
How Quincy property owners react to using eminent domain for Adams Presidential Center

Quincy plans to acquire multiple downtown properties to make way for two projects celebrating the city's history.
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The projects include the Adams Presidential Library and a small pocket park dedicated to John Quincy Adams.
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To complete these projects, the city has proposed acquiring a dermatology office, Planet Fitness and a Mexican restaurant.
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Losing that Acapulco's building on the corner would significantly degrade the urban fabric. All these corners being nibbled away for more dog toilets is concerning, especially when it's for Koch's little pet vanity projects.
 
Plen-T-Pak said:
How Quincy property owners react to using eminent domain for Adams Presidential Center





Losing that Acapulco's building on the corner would significantly degrade the urban fabric. All these corners being nibbled away for more dog toilets is concerning, especially when it's for Koch's little pet vanity projects.
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They're going to tear down a gym to build a park? That's totally insane.
The idea of an Adams Library is fine, but wanting to destroy the current built environment for it is nuts. I'd love see them take over the Granite Trust building instead.
 
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KCasiglio said:
The Acapulco's site has to be one of the best pieces of commercial real estate in the city, I have no idea what they're thinking on this one.
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I think it's the mayor and the mayor alone. Remember when he wanted to level the Gunther Tooties building to build a small skyscraper? I think his recent victory on the obscene salary increase is fueling his need to irresponsibly build monuments that will somehow make his legacy immortal in his mind. I apologize for injecting personal rants into my commentary on development but I'm finding it impossible to decouple him and his ego from what's been going on.
 
737900er said:
They're going to tear down a gym to build a park? That's totally insane.
The idea of an Adams Library is fine, but wanting to destroy the current built environment for it is nuts. I'd love see them take over the Granite Trust building instead.
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Another location that seems ideal for the Adams Center would be Freedom Park across the tracks from the gym, it was created via eminent domain and is incredibly underutilized for whatever the cost was to implement it. Putting it there creates a path from the backside of the T station directly to the actual selling point, the Adams Park/estate.

One of the curiosities I've always had about the public improvements is the location of them, they all seem to exist in the corridor between the mayor's home in North Quincy and his workplace at City Hall, you can almost guess his commute based on the construction of the past decade.
 
greenbeans said:
Another location that seems ideal for the Adams Center would be Freedom Park across the tracks from the gym, it was created via eminent domain and is incredibly underutilized for whatever the cost was to implement it. Putting it there creates a path from the backside of the T station directly to the actual selling point, the Adams Park/estate.

One of the curiosities I've always had about the public improvements is the location of them, they all seem to exist in the corridor between the mayor's home in North Quincy and his workplace at City Hall, you can almost guess his commute based on the construction of the past decade.
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The T is planning to expand the right of way to include another commuter rail track. You can't build there.

3 other sites that do come to mind are the T Bus Garage, the National Guard facility, and the Verizon building.
 
greenbeans said:
Another location that seems ideal for the Adams Center would be Freedom Park across the tracks from the gym, it was created via eminent domain and is incredibly underutilized for whatever the cost was to implement it. Putting it there creates a path from the backside of the T station directly to the actual selling point, the Adams Park/estate.
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I do hate that park as well, and it's perpetually empty.

Honestly, I don't see why they can't spare the Planet Fitness, just take the dermatologist and use that plus the overflow parking lot of the historical society. How big of a building are they thinking or (more likely) how much surface parking are they planning for a QC adjacent building?
 
737900er said:
The T is planning to expand the right of way to include another commuter rail track. You can't build there.
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I was unaware, thanks! The old T facility on Hancock would be great, you could tie it into the creek and stadium.

Entering deep into pipedream territory but decking over the tracks and building the current lot up to Burgin Pkwy would be the ideal.
 
737900er said:
The T is planning to expand the right of way to include another commuter rail track. You can't build there.
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That's wonderful news, but where did you get that information? Is it listed on some MBTA website?
 
South Shore YMCA Receives Approvals for Planned Expansion

The zoning and planning boards this month approved a site plan and special permit for a 11,295-square-foot addition to the rear of the location at 79 Coddington St.

The first floor of the two-story addition would host offices for the YMCA employees as well as a group fitness studio, which is needed for the roughly 7,000 members who take exercise classes each month, branch executive director Katelyn Szafir said. The second floor would hold a gymnastics center.

The expansion would be situated where the loading dock currently exists. The YMCA would lose seven parking spaces as a result, but the facility would still have 371 spots.
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Wow, 7000 people doing classes each month. That's how busy the YMCA once planned for the Greenway would be.
 

24 Affordable Units Proposed in Quincy​

“NeighborWorks Housing Solutions has filed plans for a 4-story affordable housing development at 150-156 Quincy Street in Quincy. The project would include 24 apartments, all studios with 12 parking spaces. The development will also offer on-site case management services, and counseling & educational services.”

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