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– News about Quincy from Quincy Quarry News.

Quincy Square Center begins fifth year under construction.

Four years after work commenced on the ran just short of twice over the originally promised maximum cost to remodel old City Hall, construction upheaval continues to make a mess of Quincy Square.

The sidewalk as well as now former run of Hancock Street between Quincy’s two City Halls and the Church of the Presidents have yet again been torn up by construction workers.

The current work is a second round of redoing underground utility lines and such in preparation for the almost $16 million but second phase of work on what is expected to cost in total upwards of $30 million dollar less than two acre park in front of City Hall.

Dug up for at least the third time
A Quincy Quarry News exclusive photo

This but second phase of constructing this extraordinarily expensive small park, long nicknamed the Kim Jung Koch Plaza by a local gadfly, is supposed to be completed in time for next year’s Flag Day Parade.

In other words, figure on closer to Labor Day of 2018, if not after sometime thereafter.

And as for the actual cost of this phase, the Koch Maladministration can commit to spending over $17 million before having to come back to the City Council for more funding or perhaps will just tap some of the recently approved $80 million debt authorization for Quincy Center redevelopment efforts.

Another short despot with helmet hair
Image via Korea News Service & AP

Regardless, Kim Jung Koch Plaza – formerly variously known as Hancock Green, Adams Green and Hancock-Adams Green – will not be completed until such time as both a design as well as then the construction of a new Quincy Center MBTA station, replacement garage and pending air rights private sector development over the station is substantially completed no sooner than sometime in the mid-2020’s, best case.

Contrary to belief, it does not grow on trees
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As for cost of the purported cost of completing the third and final phase of constructing Kim Jung Koch Plaza, the Koch Maladministration has talked up around $5 million or so, so figure on at least $8 million.

Regardless, count on Quincy Quarry to use its supercomputer Hal to count up all of many millions of taxpayers’ money misspent and incentives handed out to favored developers like condoms at Thai brothel.

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