Development news: Quincy Center adds apartments, healthcare hub

🏗️ Construction has begun on two major projects in Quincy Center: a 297-unit apartment building and an outpatient healthcare center by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

• Both projects are scheduled to open in 2027, adding to Quincy Center's recent surge in new development.
• The healthcare facility will offer cardiology, primary, cancer and urgent care.

🏢 Gov. Maura Healey is looking to redevelop two of the most striking state office buildings downtown into housing: the 1960s-era brutalist Hurley and Lindemann buildings.

• You know, the ones that represented crushing bureaucracy in "The Departed."
• The buildings could accommodate a residential tower up to 400 feet tall.

💊 A developer plans to replace the 24-hour CVS at Charles Circle with a five-story, 12-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail.

• It would bring an end to one of the last single-story buildings at that end of Cambridge St.