![]() ![]() It would also house a clinic for spaying and neutering animals, shelter director Kit Burke said. Last year, shelter employees raved about a multi-purpose animal care center that will serve the shelter’s needs in addition to the city’s animal control department and the police department’s K9 unit. It wasn’t productive environmentally or recreationally, but we managed to turn it into something I think a lot of people are going to enjoy.” “The site itself was really underutilized. “It’s challenging to build because of the topography there, but to have the dog park on the same site as the future animal shelter just seemed right,” Koch said at the time. The dog park opened in July, on the southern tip of the former Highpoint property next to the Avalon development. Quarry Street in West Quincy will be the location of the new shelter, near the city's first dog park. The current shelter is one of several buildings, including the Father Bill's & Mainspring homeless shelter and former VFW post, that will soon be demolished. The new shelter has been floated for more than three years now, but progress has been slow. Want news like this sent straight to your inbox? Head over to to sign up for alerts and make sure you never miss a thing. He expects work will start in about a month. Only part of the money needed for the new shelter building has been approved by city council, but Koch says pre-construction work on the new site by engineers and architects is wrapping up. The shelter is currently located in a small, cramped building on Broad Street that is slated to be torn down to make way for a new police station. ![]() "Things are coming along and it's really going to be a much better set up for them," said Mayor Thomas Koch. QUINCY - Architects are refining plans and construction is expected to start next spring on a new animal shelter near the dog park on Quarry Street, officials say. ![]()
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