Sox Owners, Partners Plan Major Development Around Fenway Park

[nayrbrey]

I've conditioned myself to driving to the Prudential Center and parking there and then walking to Fenway. It's reasonably priced, and actually makes it easy to get back on Mass Pike West for the drive back to CT.

Agree 100%. It’s much better to park at the Pru or Dalton St Garage and walk over, added benefit of hitting up Bukowski’s for a pre or post game beverage or 2.

 

[snowmanny]

I've walked to the ballpark a zillion times, including when the walk was an hour away, and I have taken the T to the ballpark a zillion times. Nowadays I drive to somewhere in range of the ballpark and then walk, but it gets more problematic every year. I have probably been to thirty opening days but those days are done because it is not worth the trouble of figuring out where to park on a weekday, even if I am thinking of parking out of town and taking the T. Accessibility is an actual thing whether or not people want to get all high-minded about it.

 

[JimD]

It would be helpful to know what the net change in parking spaces actually is. All of these new commercial developments must have added some garage parking in the vicinity.

 

[Ale Xander]

It would be helpful to know what the net change in parking spaces actually is. All of these new commercial developments must have added some garage parking in the vicinity.

The public/resident or local/private 3 option division of the new spaces would be interesting to me

 

[Ale Xander]

Fenway Center by IQHQ update:
https://www.boston.com/real-estate/real-estate/2023/01/06/latest-development-over-pike-will-lift-fenway-livability/

 

[Sin Duda]

I truly miss the heyday of 92.9, 94.1, 100.7, 101.7, 103.3, and 107.3 to accompany 104.1 (80's and early 90's). And I'm still not sure if that era was the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end, as it was well past the time when WBCN had a true edginess that made it something to witness in real time (mid-to-late 70's IIRC).

I was from down Providence way but I got to play The Channel back in the late 80s. And got interviewed by Carmelita on (I think) WAAF.

 

[Blizzard of 1978]

I've walked to the ballpark a zillion times, including when the walk was an hour away, and I have taken the T to the ballpark a zillion times. Nowadays I drive to somewhere in range of the ballpark and then walk, but it gets more problematic every year. I have probably been to thirty opening days but those days are done because it is not worth the trouble of figuring out where to park on a weekday, even if I am thinking of parking out of town and taking the T. Accessibility is an actual thing whether or not people want to get all high-minded about it.

The few times I go to the ballpark now I take Ubers up and back. Main reasons as the older I get my night vision has gone down, plus less stress about where to find a parking spot.

 

[Harry Hooper]

The $1 billion, nearly 1 million-square-foot project encompasses a deck built over the Mass. Pike to hold up the broader development — akin to what happening less than a mile to the east at Parcel 12, which will house the future headquarters of CarGurus, and decades ago in building the Copley Place mall.

Quite an awkward sentence to make it into publication, Boston.com.

Anyway, the baseball-related question is how do these new buildings going up around the ballpark affect the carry of the batted balls. A boost to offense, a drag on offense, or not much impact?