Fanfrom1960

Not during the current ownership regime. Instead they've been improving it, adding seats everywhere they can (above the Green Monster, etc.). Up to 37,446 people yesterday, used to be 34 thousand something. Funny, but I remember in the 90s there was talk that the foundation pillars for the park, sunk into the old Back Bay, were being eaten away and would not much longer support the place.

Pats726

NIMBY...even though it wasn't at all CLOSE to neighborhoods...in fact it was bordering on other communities and really would have had NO negative impact as far as cars went...
Even worse than the SOuth Boston situation where some how 10 football games in Southie would disrupt the community...while 82 baseball games was welcomed. (Antisemitisim rampant there...)

TrueBeliever

Some of this talk reminds me of some talk 8-9 years ago on the Patriots.com BB when Gillette was being planned. Apparently there was some real doubt if Foxboro was going to allow the plans to go through, because some residents there were tired of all the traffic, etc. on game days. I remember one guy saying, "How bad can the traffic be when we're talking about 10 days every year?!"

Wonder how much resistance there would have been if the new stadium proposal had come after SB 36?

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TrueBeliever

That's kinda what I was getting at. These days people talk about Fenway like it's the Lambeau Field of baseball, so I was surprised to read that the Sox ever looked at replacing it. At the same time, I'm sure just about any pro sports owner would take a new stadium if the price was right.

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AzPatsFan

Fenwy is/was getting old 40 years a go. No matter how much make up you put on an old dowager, she is still an old bag of bones...

Fenway wil have to be repalced within a decade. Even Hallowed Yankee stadium fell to the wrecking ball and it was a decade younger.

Fanfrom1960

What, America's most beloved ballpark?



The place still has a better "feel" to it when you're there than any other. I would beg to differ and say it's good for at least 20 more years. Would you be knocking down Wrigley Field too?

Jimke

Tom Yawkey was not willing to share Fenway with the Braves until

the Braves had committed to moving to Milwaukee. The Braves had a

crap hole of a ballpark on Commonwealth Avenue near the train

tracks. When the coal fired train passed by, the coal smoke would

drift across the field.

Pats726

There were p[lans in th elate 40s to build an upper deck on Fenway and have the park be both the home to the Braves and the Sox...Yawkey didn't want that at all...ruled the team like a plantation and so the Braves moved. Mt father told me a LOT about the differences between the Braves and Sox..

tanked_as_usual

heh.......fenway is a total dump next to progressive field(indians, camden yards (orioles), att partk(giants), petco (padres), safeco (mariners).....basically every ballpark that I''ve been to is miles ahead of fenway

tanked_as_usual

the megaplex died because of local politics.......

Gillette Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first major stadium proposal from another city came in September 1993. Lowell Weicker, the Governor of Connecticut, proposed to the Connecticut State Assembly that a new stadium should be built in Hartford to attract the Patriots to move there, stating that a stadium had "potentially great benefit" if it were built. The bill passed in the State Assembly on September 27, 1993.[14] In Massachusetts, there was a proposal to build a "Megaplex" in Boston, which would be the site of the stadium, baseball fields, and a much needed convention center. Patriots owner Robert Kraft and Boston mayor Tom Menino wanted this stadium in West Roxbury, but governor William Weld wanted it in South Boston. Neither of these neighborhoods wanted a stadium, thus Menino backed out fearing it would affect his chance at re-election.[15]

Kraft then began a plan to build a new stadium in South Boston. In that plan, Kraft was to pay for the stadium himself, hoping to win the support of Weld and Menino. He began to sketch designs, but the project was leaked to the press in December 1996. The residents of South Boston objected to a stadium being built there, causing Menino and Weld to become angry at Kraft. Kraft abandoned all plans for a Boston Stadium after the affair.[16] In January 1997, Kraft began talks with Providence mayor Vincent Cianci to relocate the team to Providence and build a new stadium there. The proposed 68,000 seat domed stadium would have cost $250 million, and would have been paid through income tax, public bonds, and a surcharge on tickets. However, citizens in the proposed neighborhood were highly opposed to the project, and the surrounding area would have needed massive infrastructure improvements. The proposal fell through after a few weeks.[17]

During a news conference in September 1998, the team revealed plans to build a new stadium in Foxboro, keeping the team in Massachusetts. It was to be funded by the state as well as Kraft himself. This plan brought more competition from Connecticut, as a $1 billion plan to renovate an area of Hartford, including building a stadium.[18] Kraft then signed an agreement to move the team to Hartford on November 18, 1998. The proposed stadium included 68,000 seats, 60 luxury boxes, and had a cost of $375 million.[19] The stadium, just like in Boston and Providence, was once again challenged by the residents of the proposed neighborhood. Problems with the site were discovered, and an agreement could not be reached regarding the details of the stadium. The entire plan eventually fell through, enraging then Connecticut governor John G. Rowland, who lobbied hard for the stadium and spent weeks deliberating with Robert Kraft.[20] In 1999, the team officially announced that it would remain in Foxboro, which led to Gillette Stadium's construction.[21]