City, Street-Works File Major Environmental Permit

QUINCY - Mayor Thomas Koch and Street-Works Development filed a voluminous state environmental notice for the $1.6 billion redevelopment of Quincy Center that sets the stage for the most intensive state permitting process on the historic revitalization plan.

"We are making substantial progress everyday, and this notice is a critical step toward breaking ground on what will be the largest private investment and largest job creator in our City's history," said Mayor Koch. "Together with our partners at Street-Works, we are very much looking forward to laying out the broad range of environmental details that will be required as part of this process."

The filing is called an Environmental Notification Form and it advises the state Executive Office of Environmental Affairs of the project's intentions and provides a broad outline of many of the project's environmental components. It is essentially a trigger mechanism for state authorities, who will review it and then give the City and Street-Works a specific scope of work for what is called an Environmental Impact Report.

That document will spell out in specific detail the wide range of components - and their environmental effects - included in the redevelopment, including traffic, parking, drainage, water supply, and landscaping among others. The Environmental Impact Report, when completed, will provide the foundation for a series of necessary permits.

"This is a tremendously comprehensive filing, showing a level of engineering and technical diligence that is only going to grow as we continue to move forward with the state environmental process," said Stephen Chrusciel, Director of Construction Services for Street-Works.

The City and Street-Works expect to receive a response from state regulators on how to proceed by Labor Day, officials said.