Quincy City Hall Mini Me Plaza and water features near completion

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The Mini-Me mini plaza and its water feature
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Quincy City Hall Mini Me Plaza and water features near completion.

Quincy City Hall’s suspected to be eventually known as Mini Me Plaza as well as its adjacent water feature moat have been semi-completed.

After many months of delay and massive cost overruns on embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s extravagant plans to renovate old City Hall into a lightly used and thus arguably all but museum piece, there is finally something to arguably show for these massive expenses: Quincy’s old City Hall at least has the making of a new mini-plaza adjacent to it and which inexplicably feature three water features.

Kim Jung Koch Mini-Me Plaza while under construction
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

At the same time, given Quincy Quarry’s policy of providing balanced and fair coverage, this mini project is widely suspected to have given rise to further damage to old City Hall’s foundation as well as cost overruns on Old City Hall’s massively over budget renovation project.

Further, while this mini plaza may eventually provide some actual – however minimal – landscaping improvement along but the side of one of Quincy’s two City Halls, duly embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s grandiose dreams of an upwards of $30 million acre and half dream theme park in front of Quincy’s two City Halls continue to be stuck in the proverbial mud.
While Mayor Koch has already spent plenty – however undisclosed to the public just how much –  on merely but planning his Adams Green dream park, he continues to still not yet have any money actually lined up to actually perhaps eventually build it – that or at least build something plausibly close to and thus perhaps spinnable as a facsimile thereof.

Mini Me Plaza’s namesake
A QQ PhotoShop Phun Team photo

Conversely, the Mini Me Plaza mini landscaping project has been inexplicably at least partially funded by federal transportation funding, plus whatever cost overruns that have all but assuredly been incurred and which are likely to be covered by local taxpayers one way or another.

Originally, this mini project was slated to construct an underground water cistern to supply the three so-called water features planned for the – again – upwards of  $30 million – at last count – Adams Green pipe dream of a park and which is – in turn – but a small part of embattled incumbent mayor’s even more grandiose pipe dreams for Quincy Center.
Again, however, absent any actual funding to actually build his pipe dream of a dream theme park any time even in the intermediate horizon, both of these grandiose pipe dreams are likely to continue to be little more than pipe dreams.

Hookah-fueled pipe dreams?
A Pinterest image

Regardless, and while absent a sure to be amusing explanation from the feds as to why they provided a million dollars in federal highway funds to fund the building of an underground water supply cistern for the unlikely to funded anytime soon three water fountain and water dream park features that are not a obviously tied to a transportation project, at least Quincy Quarry can report that sufficient change orders on this currently unneeded water supply cistern would appear to have been effected – if not also grifted – such that this pork project might instead become known as Mini Me Plaza.

As such, expect Quincy Quarry to cover the expected usual photo op dog and pony show by embattled incumbent Mayor Thomas P. Koch at his highly anticipated dedication of Mini Me Plaza.

In the meanwhile, if only former US Senator William Proxmire was still alive as well as still awarding his monthly Golden Fleece Awards to wasteful expenditures of taxpayer-funded federal funds as Mini Me Plaza would surely rate at least dishonorable mention.

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