The key principal for Boston-based Madison Properties has experience with Worcester but has never built a project like the one he has planned next to the proposed Polar Park.
The Worcester Redevelopment Authority has now voted to acquire nearly all of the properties needed for the $101-million ballpark to serve as the new home of the Pawtucket Red Sox.
The Worcester Redevelopment Authority's order of taking of three properties needed for the $101 million Polar Park has officially been filed at the Worcester County Registry of Deeds.
Worcester and Boston developer Madison Properties have officially announced changes to the plans: a five-story office building in left field to take the place of a planned hotel.
The Worcester Redevelopment Authority is now using eminent domain to go after at least two Canal District properties needed for the $101-million Polar Park baseball stadium development.
Worcester officials have formally asked the Worcester Redevelopment Authority to select a joint venture of two national construction firms to be construction managers of the $101 million Polar Park.
The architecture firm that designed improvements to Fenway Park is the frontrunner to design the $90-million ballpark structure for the Worcester Red Sox.