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Local Activists Concerned Over Fenway Renovation

BOSTON-While the new owners of the Boston Red Sox have stated that they want to renovate Fenway Park rather than build a new ballpark on another site, local activists who support the plan are concerned that local pressure might affect the outcome of that decision.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on January 21, 2002

BOSTON-For a group of local activists interested in ensuring that the Boston Red Sox continue to play ball in Fenway Park, the news that the group led by Florida-based financier John Henry won the bid to buy the Red Sox couldn’t have been better. The Henry group has stated all along its intention to renovate the park, rather than build a new ballpark in another location.

But this being the Boston Red Sox, where natives believe that they alone understand what it means to own a piece of the team, there is concern that the new owners will feel a need to bring a local element into their group. The fear among the pro-Fenway crowd is that the list of potential new owners is filled with local businesspeople who own large pieces of real estate that could be seen as a new home for the Sox. That list includes Steven Karp, who owns Anthony’s on Pier 4 on the waterfront in South Boston; Dan Merino, the head of Modern Continental, who owns a parcel in Everett; and, Joseph O’Donnell of the Boston Concession Group, who is a shareowner of Suffolk Downs in Revere.

The new owners have invested a large sum of money for a renovation plan, as Erica Tarlin, a spokesperson for Save Fenway Park!, a local activist group committed to restoring Fenway Park, tells GlobeSt.com. “They have built a pledge around their renovations,” she says. “But there is concern about them taking in new partners.”

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