Photo courtesy of Quincy Assessor's Office
Multifamily housing is expected to replace an office building in Quincy’s Crown Colony Park, which was rezoned last year to encourage reinvestment.
The 315-unit over-55 development would be built at 1600 Crown Colony Drive. Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch and executives from Atlantic Development and Atlantic Management plan to announce details of the project at a press conference on Tuesday morning.
Throughout eastern Massachusetts, the lingering high vacancy rate in suburban office parks is prompting proposals for multifamily housing.
Brookline Town Meeting last week approved a rezoning plan for a section of Route 9, where Allston-based City Realty Group is proposing to demolish the Chestnut Hill Office Park and build hundreds of apartments, condominiums and a hotel.
In Woburn, the City Council last month approved Pulte Homes of New England’s rezoning plan for the Vale development near Interstate 93, replacing planned office and lab buildings with 504 age-restricted condominiums. Burlington-based Gutierrez Companies is planning to resubmit plans for a multifamily development on a dormant lab site off Middlesex Turnpike.
The Quincy project would be built at 1600 Crown Colony Drive, currently home to a 237,000 square-foot office building completed in 1999. The building was most recently occupied by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
Atlantic Management acquired the property in June 2025 for $11 million, according to data compiled by The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman.
The property is located within a zoning overlay district approved by the city of Quincy to encourage redevelopment of Crown Colony Park.
“Communities across Greater Boston are facing a fundamental shift in how commercial office space is being used, and Quincy is choosing to lead rather than react,” Koch said in a statement.
Led by CEO Joseph Zink, Atlantic Management has extensive experience repurposing office parks in Boston suburbs, including the former HP campus in Marlborough.
In Southborough, construction of a Costco superstore is under way on a section of the former EMC campus acquired by Atlantic Management in 2024.
