Contractors have been busy demolishing the 47-year-old concrete garage over the station that closed in 2012 after falling into disrepair to make way for a massive mixed use development that will include hundreds of apartments and thousands of feet of retail space above the station. Demolition is expected to go on until next spring and MBTA officials said they've received a handful of complaints from neighbors about the overnight construction noise.
"It's impacting us not only during night but during day seven days a week. It's impacting us at night with windows closed, doors closed and sleeping on the far side of the house," President's Hill resident Robert Quinn said at a community meeting with MBTA officials on Wednesday. "We're not able to sleep at night."
MBTA Senior Project Manager John McCormack said he's instructed contractors LM Heavy Civil Construction and Cooperativa Muratori & Cementisti to cease overnight work for the upcoming weekend so they can evaluate how to reduce some of the noise.
"We will have noise mitigation set up for following weekends," he said. Overnight work is expected to continue at least through November and is likely to go on after that.
Overnight demolition work wasn't part of the plan when MBTA officials met first met with residents about the project in April 2017 and several residents chastised MBTA officials for a lack of communication on the changes.
The $67.9 million expecnse to tear down the garage also inclsudes the overhaul the Wollaston T station. Contractors tore down the Wollaston station in the first three months of this year and McCormack said the new station is on track to open in the summer of 2019.
Exactly what the development that will replace the garage at Quincy Center will look like and when it will be built is still anyone's guess. A six-month due diligence period with the developer, North Quincy Partners, a development company created as a joint venture between Bozzuto Group of Washington, D.C., and Atlantic Development of Hingham, ended in June, but no new information has been released.
MBTA officials aso offered few updates on plans to construct a second massive mixed-use developments on T land at the North Quincy T station.
North Quincy Partners has been selected as the developer for that project.
Work to construct a parking garage, 610 apartments and 50,000 square feet of retail space that was supposed to begin this summer at North Quincy station has stalled after the state ruled the garage needed to go out to public bid.
Callahan was awarded the contact to build the 1,500-space garage last month, but McCormack said there's still no timeline for the work, but said information would be forthcoming after the MBTA inks a deal with developers. The garage is expected to take a year to build.
The MBTA plans to sign a 99-year lease the North Quincy Partners that would generate about $230 million in rent for the MBTA over the course of the agreement. After the garage is finished, crews will go to work on the residential and commercial building, which will be five stories tall and span the length of three city blocks.
