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Councilor Calls for Review of Seaport Ballpark Idea

BOSTON-City Councilor Michael Flaherty calls for a review of plans to build a ballpark in the waterfront district. Frank McCourt, who owns 25 acres, has been campaigning to have the ballpark built on his property.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on June 21, 2001

BOSTON-City Councilor Michael Flaherty has called for a review of plans to build a ballpark in South Boston’s waterfront district. The South Boston native is the first political leader from this area to embrace the potential idea. “He believes that the possibility has been ignored and its time to explore the opportunity,” Stephen Crawford, spokesperson for Flaherty tells GlobeSt.com, in explaining Flaherty’s reasons for coming forward now.

Until now, the plan has been for the Boston Red Sox to build a new ballpark right next to the old one in the Fenway area. That plan has apparently been stalled by the lack of support from the City Council, which needs to give approval for the Sox to take the land in Fenway by eminent domain and approve the $140 million it would cost to buy the land.

“The city proposal to build a ballpark next to Fenway is dead,” points out Crawford. “The votes from the City Council on the eminent domain issue are not there and the votes for providing the $140 million are not there.” A plan to rebuild Fenway Park has been floating around for the past few weeks, but Crawford declares that rebuilding the 1912 ballpark is “not possible.”

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