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Polar Park's groundbreaking is expected in July, with a planned April 2021 opening. That can often be enough time to build a ballpark, but other parks have suffered delays and Worcester's site is a complex one.
Worcester’s planned Polar Park is still being designed but one feature that's set, a brick building with ballpark views, has become common at parks across the country as teams build more elaborate parks with a variety of seating options.
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 is now using eminent domain to go after at least two Canal District properties needed for the $101-million Polar Park baseball stadium development.
A timeline to open the Red Sox ballpark by 2021 leaves the city little wiggle room to buy and relocate businesses in just a few months.
Wyman-Gordon and Boston developer Madison Downtown Holdings have closed on a $6.1-million sale of land needed to help develop the $101-million ballpark for the Worcester Red Sox.
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.
So far, 19 companies have signed on to be founding partners of the Worcester Red Sox minor league baseball team, including Polar Beverages, MGM Springfield and Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
Sports economists sharply criticized Worcester's ballpark plan, saying public benefits are often minimal and the spillover effects overstated.
Worcester has signed a letter of intent with the Pawtucket Red Sox, with a proposed $85 million to $90 million ballpark to attract the team to the city.
Milford Regional Healthcare Foundation raised a record-breaking $1.3 million through its annual Mélange Gala and Live Auction on Nov. 2, the most the event had ever raised in its 20-year history. Supporting major renovation taking place to an eight-bed surgical suite at UMass Memorial Health – Milford Regional Medical Center, the fundraiser was attended by 400 individuals and businesses with four donating $25,000 each and 24 donating $10,000 each.
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