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Polar Park's concession stands will include some well known Worcester restaurants among its options for Worcester Red Sox baseball games.

Early decisions on where Polar Park would be built and when it would open sent both the city and the Worcester Red Sox down a fast-moving, complicated path, pushing costs up from the initial $100.8 million estimate to the newly updated $159.5 million today.

Amid the boilerplate items and legalese – as well as financial terms that have been closely reported upon – here are 20 things to know from the lease.

The Worcester Red Sox will use more than 300 part-time, seasonal employees to fill a variety of positions, including parking attendants, ushers, cleaning crews, concessions and merchandise staff, the team announced on Thursday.

The Worcester City Council approved unanimously Tuesday night new borrowing of $14 million to cover the latest cost overruns at the city-owned Polar Park baseball stadium.

A new American Basketball Association team making Worcester its home beginning this year will be named both after the city and one of its own. 

The Worcester Red Sox's lease with the city to play for up to 35 years in Polar Park was approved Friday by the Worcester Redevelopment Authority. The long-anticipated lease agreement commits the WooSox to play at Polar Park for at least 25 years, starting as soon as April.

Worcester City Councilors maintained strong support for the city-built Polar Park baseball stadium Tuesday night days after the project's latest total cost of $157 million was made public.

A proposed lease agreement between the Worcester Red Sox and the City of Worcester commits the city to at least $15 million in infrastructure improvements around Polar Park in addition to the ballpark's roughly $157-million cost.

The Rhode Island city of Pawtucket is suing the now-Worcester Red Sox for what it alleges are the team's failure to perform required maintenance and repair of their longtime home, the city-owned McCoy Stadium.