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A developer proposing a large downtown Quincy project is swapping out a 20-story hotel-apartment tower in favor of more office and lab space.

FoxRock Properties will expand the office-lab component from 150,000 to nearly 250,000 square feet while eliminating the hotel and apartments, The Patriot Ledger reported.

FoxRock, owned by Granite Telecommunications CEO Robert Hale Jr., unveiled plans last fall for the project on a 2.7-acre Parkingway site near the MBTA’s Quincy Center station. The 295,000-square-foot tower would have included a 125-room hotel and 200 market-rate apartments.

FoxRock executive Josh Kleinman told the newspaper the changes came in response to negative public reaction to the height of the tower. The updated plans will first be reviewed by the Quincy Planning Board on Feb. 9.

The plans also retain a 22,000-square-foot retail building, 2-story restaurant and 510-space parking garage.

Quincy’s administration has been seeking to attract large-scale commercial development to the downtown area to complement the recent boom in multifamily housing construction.