Quincy, Mass., has broken ground on Merchants Row, the first mixed-use block of the $1.6-billion Quincy Center redevelopment project, one of the Bay State's largest construction projects, eight miles south of Boston.
The historic public-private downtown redevelopment project, managed in partnership with the city of Quincy, will include 1.1 million sq ft of new green office space designed by locally based Sheskey Architects. Comprising a 20-sq-block urban mixed-use neighborhood, the complex will have several office buildings up to 20 stories tall, 700,000 sq ft of retail shops and restaurants, two new hotels, 1,400 residential units and multiple new parking garages, with 5,000 public parking spaces.