Members of grass-roots group Save Fenway Park said
yesterday that "their plan" to renovate the facility "would
save" MA taxpayers "about" $90M, according to Meg
Vaillancourt of the BOSTON GLOBE. In a "new independent
cost estimate," the group added that their plan would also
"save" the Red Sox between $50-70M in construction costs.
But the Red Sox "dismissed" Save Fenway's arguments, "noting
the group acknowledged the cost estimate failed to include a
number of required expenses" such as engineering, design,
legal fees, furniture, fittings and communications systems.
Vaillancourt notes that "when all expenses are added," Save
Fenway's plan would cost "at least" $376M, "slightly more
than the team's proposed" $350M plan (BOSTON GLOBE, 7/14).
ON BEACON HILL: CBS's Anthony Mason closed the "CBS
Evening News" with a profile of Fenway Park. Boston Globe
columnist Dan Shaughnessy, on the Red Sox awaiting state
funds for the new Fenway Park: "This is Boston. It takes so
long to do anything here, we might all be dead by the time
they have the new Fenway" ("CBS Evening News," 7/13).
