Heavy equipment will start tearing up parts of Quincy Center next month, launching a $1.6 billion revitalization of the city’s downtown that has been in the works for years.
The first phase of the project, to be called Merchants Row, will include a complex of new and restored buildings that will contain 306 loft-style apartments, 24,000 square feet of office space, and several shops and restaurants along Hancock and Cottage streets.
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Here's hoping Quincy can pull this off - other cities need a good model for downtown redevelopment, decades after "urban renewal" gutted dozens of downtowns followed by mall and big-box-store building that gutted many of the rest.