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Ground Broken For East Quarry Medical Building
Building at 104 Quarry Street Expected to Completed Next Summer

By Joe Reardon, The Quincy Sun
November 18, 2010

A small quarry overgrown with brush will be the future site of the East Quarry Medical Building.

Located adjacent to the Sons of Italy building on Quarry Street, the groundbreaking ceremony was held on Monday afternoon.

Mayor Thomas Koch and Ward 4 Councillor Brian Palmucci were on hand for the ceremonial event, along with partners Sean and Scott Galvin of Galvin Development, and Jay Bernasconi, the owner of Furnace Brook Physical Therapy.

The two-plus acres of land were purchased by Galvin on March 18 for the sum of $825,000. He spent the summer securing permits for the construction as well as conducting public hearings with neighbors surrounding the building of the 14,000 square foot, two-story medical facility.

“We spent the summer working through the permit process,” Sean Galvin said. “We had the neighborhood meeting and it was a pretty positive experience.”

Galvin secured permits from both the Zoning Board of Appeal and the Planning Board for the project.

Galvin reached an agreement with Furnace Brook Physical Therapy to occupy the first floor of the building and has leased half of the second floor to a private medical office.

The building is expected to be completed sometime in early summer.

The Sons of Italy, which holds in the neighborhood of 250 functions a year, will remain open throughout the construction, which is set to begin within the next two weeks. Galvin said he hopes to have the foundation built before the winter weather arrives.

The future medical building is another of several projects in the Quarry Street area, which have made the area more esthetically pleasing, according to Galvin.

“It’ll be nice to dress up the area they (Sons of Italy) weren’t able to dress up,” said Galvin. “It (the sale) was an opportunity for them to act quickly.”

“It’s going to look excellent,” said Dan Grant, chairman of the Sons of Italy in September. “It’s a really beautiful building they’re putting up there. It’s (Sons of Italy) going to be there for years, years and years.”

Galvin said the relationship between the Sons of Italy and Galvin Development has been a good one.

“We believe our proposal was chosen because it worked best with their desire to stay in their building,” Galvin said. “Also, we were able to provide parking for our new office building and overflow parking for the hall which would peak at different times.”

Galvin believes in the importance that the Sons of Italy continue to operate in the current location.

“The club is an icon in West Quincy and its benevolence would be seriously missed in the community,” said Galvin. “The club has been there since 1969. I can’t count the number of functions and events I have attended in that building.”

Galvin sited other practical aspects of the development beyond saving the club. The land and the new building will pay tens of thousands of dollars in real estate taxes where the Sons of Italy paid no takes. The new building will keep a business in Quincy.

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