WBZ Channel 4 reports that Quincy’s new Hancock Adams Common cost thirty-five million

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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

WBZ Channel 4 reports that Hancock Adams Green cost thirty-five million dollars.

While Founding Fathers John Hancock and John Adams were featured on center stage at the dedication of the Hancock Adams Common on Saturday, Abigail and John Quincy Adams were all but relegated to standing room only.

In any event, WBZ reported that this latest Kochian edifice complex has cost $35 million.

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Quincy Quarry, on the other hand, has conservatively projected a cost to date of somewhere in the $27 million to $30 million or so range for the work done to date.

Then again, the Quarry is also expecting that a handful of millions more or so is likely ending up spent so as needed to finish up the roughly third of the Hancock Adams Common (better known as Kim Jong Koch Plaza, ed.) adjacent to the Quincy Center MBTA station after it might eventually be provided with a long-overdue redo. 

At present, however, the T has no funding for the redoing Quincy Center station and is on record as saying it will not be spending any more of its money on station renovations on the Braintree Red line above and beyond the hundreds of millions that it has already allocated to renovate Red Line stations in Quincy.

Regardless, Quincy Quarry can imagine any number of ways how WBZ’s $35 million figure might be valid, if not also prove to be a conservative projection of the eventual gobsmackingly outrageous final cost of this one of many koched-up edifice complexes.

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For starters, given how essentially all major Koch Maladministration projects – other than local school construction which is carefully overseen by outside and independent construction experts – have typically run 50% to close to 100% over the maximum cost promised by Team Koch and/or failed to be completed anywhere close to when it promised they would be finished.

That – and again, The Koch Maladministration mouthpiece Pinocchio Walkbacker has already acknowledged that the plaza is unfinished.

Conversely, however, the South Shore Broadsheet has repeatedly cited but a $15.7 million figure for but the cost of the recent Phase Two work on what is projected to be a three-phase project .

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In any event, it is only reasonable to note that Quincy Quarry’s projected cost range is not only smacked in the middle, it has a solid rationale for its figure than do other than projected cost overruns.

That and the Quarry has reached out to both WBZ and the South Shore Broadsheet so as to inquire it came up with the figures they reported.

Source: Hancock Adams Common Dedication Draws Large Crowd In Quincy

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