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Another tower proposal has risen up in downtown Quincy.
South Shore developer FoxRock has filed plans with the city to build a 20-story tower and an adjacent office building on a 2.7-acre parking lot abutting the MBTA’s Red Line tracks that has so far escaped the city’s downtown revival. The project will be known as “Switchpoint Quincy.”
The buildings, if approved, will rise next door to a pair of developments proposed by Tremont Asset Management and the owner of the Tavern in the Square dining group in June. Totaling $300 million, those projects on the southern edge of the city’s downtown would bring restaurant, coworking and performing arts space, plus 594 apartments and a public park in a pair of towers.
The FoxRock tower will be split into two parts: a 125-key hotel and 200 market-rate apartment units, together totaling 295,000 square feet. The building and the neighboring 6-story, 150,000-square-foot medical office building will be serviced by a 490-spot garage with an unspecified number of electric vehicle charging stations. The garage will rise over a 2-story restaurant pavilion facing General McConville Way that, renderings included in the project filing show, will include a second-floor patio. Residential and hotel amenities will include a shared roof deck, pool and fitness center on the tower’s top floor.
Construction costs are estimated at $245 per square foot, or $162.36 million in total.
The project does not require zoning relief, but the application states developers have asked the city Conservation Commission if it will need a waiver thanks to flooding potential on the neighboring Red Line tracks. The project is slated for Planning Board review this week.
