Marina Bay is a mixed condominium, commercial and entertainment development environment in Quincy, Massachusetts. It includes five residential complexes (including separate apartments, townhouses and low-rise apartment units) and a living room complex, assisted office complexes, restaurants, a 685-slip marina, and a beachfront walkway. The town is located in the northwestern part of the Squantum Peninsula at the mouth of the Neponset River where it meets with Dorchester Bay in Boston Harbor. The population of permanent housing in Marina Bay in 2000 was about 1,300 according to the US Census Bureau; however, the Boston Globe reported in 2004 that the complex had 2,000 inhabitants.
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History
Marina Bay is located on the site of the Victory and Victim of the Squantum Naval Air Station, a naval airfield closed in 1954. The surplus base was sold at auction in 1956 by the US Government Public Service Agency to Boston Edison, a major electric utility in Massachusetts east at the time. Although other uses have been discussed, it is generally assumed that Boston Edison will use a 600 acre (2.4 km km) site to build a power plant facility, with the construction of a nuclear power plant included in the speculation. The company did not act to develop the factory and instead leased the property to a company that maintains a large marina on site in the 1960s, using the main hangar of the old naval base as the main marina building.
Boston Harbor Marina Inc., then Marina Industries Inc., became interested in land development as a mixed-used complex in the 1980s and groups driven by developers Quincy William and Peter O'Connell were able to gain support and eventually got approval from the town of Quincy for project in 1985. Construction lasted gradually for several years until the early 1990s recession stopped him and eventually forced O'Connells to declare bankruptcy. Development continues under other management with O'Connells involvement after foreclosure. During the 1990s onwards became recognized as a highly desirable location by companies and urban professionals and has been cited by the state of Massachusetts as a successful example of "traditional environmental development", an aspect of what came to be known as New Urbanism.
The development has not existed without controversy. Initial concepts and construction were challenged to fail by residents in adjacent Quantum neighborhoods, who were concerned about traffic congestion and noise pollution. Later, environmental groups successfully opposed the expansion of the complex into a wetland area used as a bird sanctuary, fought for five years ending in 2002. The noise from the big nightclub known as the Ocean Club, formerly Marina Bay Beach Club, formerly named WaterWorks, has pushed complaints from as far as the Boston Savin Hill neighborhood, located 2,000 feet (610 m) at Dorchester Bay, and has been a continuing source of political struggle.
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Environmental identity
Marina Bay is not a city of its own, and unlike all of the other Quincy neighborhoods, the city has not been registered in the United States Geological Survey database in places named in the United States. However, in 2004 it gained temporary fame such as when New England Patriots midfielder Willie McGinest was interviewed at home on the NFL broadcast of national television broadcasts and the location for live images was given at the bottom of the screen as "Marina Bay, Massachusetts". This assignment is not officially recognized by the United States Postal Service, which only receives specified email addressed to ZIP code 02171 addressed to Quincy, North Quincy or Squantum, MA. Nevertheless, residents of Marina Bay and local media watched broadcasts and stories at the Boston Globe outlining its complex success and popularity among local athletes and celebrities emerging shortly after McGinest's interview.
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