Concerned about escalating construction costs and unpredictability of future costs, the developer in November halted work on Merchants Row, the first mixed-use complex of the $1.6-billion Quincy Center redevelopment project that broke ground five months ago in Quincy, Mass. The project, eight miles south of Boston, will now go into redesign to save money, according to Street-Works, the Quincy developer.
Construction of Merchants Row—a public-private partnership with the City of Quincy and one of the largest redevelopment projects in Massachusetts—was planned in conjunction with the new Adams Green public space that will encompass the graves of American Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and their wives, and link to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Red Line station in downtown Quincy.