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Quincy 6/23/71  Photo by: Everett A Tatreau photo-8.jpg Patrick Alessi, 15, Quincy walks on Hancock St minus a shirt due to record breaking temps.  3/31/98 Photo by: Gary Higgins Quincy The Bargain CEnter John Steckl photo  Dec 1986 Publication date: March 29, 1970 Photo by David L. Richards  Aerial photo of Quincy Center Handshakes Restaurant: from left: Tim Cahill, Joe Irvine, and Ed Graham all of Quincy, co-owners  Nov 15, 1984 Photo by Bill Greene Bargain Center Sale August 1964 photo-5.jpg Publication Date: October 18, 1983 Photo by: Charles Flagg  Important part of the Quincy story is the municipally owned parking areas on both sides of Hancock St, Quincy Square, as shown in this composite photograph taken from the tower of the Granite Trust Company. photo-3.jpg
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The Road Show

We will be taking the vision and preliminary plans on the road with a series of about 20 public meetings over the next two months.  We will get the full schedule out to The Ledger as soon as all the details are finalized, but the first meeting will be held with the Merrymount Neighborhood Association at 7 p.m. next Wednesday (March [...]

Plans assume the best in worst of times

If nothing else, the redevelopment plan for downtown Quincy is optimistic.
Let me count the ways:
1. That there’s enough demand for a dozen new office buildings, retail stores, full-priced apartments/condos and parking garage fees to rival those in Boston.
2. That the roadways designed to support this colossus are adequate to handle the anticipated deliveries, traffic and [...]