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REPORTS CONTINUE THAT RED SOX PLANS AT RISK AFTER CHANGES

          As the Red Sox "struggle to cut costs and find private
     financing for a new Fenway Park," CEO John Harrington is
     naming Meredith & Grew President Thomas Hynes "to assist in
     crucial negotiations," according to team officials cited by
     Meg Vaillancourt of the BOSTON GLOBE.  The developer "will
     play a lead role in discussions with landowners" whose
     property the team wants to clear to make way for a new
     ballpark.  Hynes will also help develop planned retail shops
     around the "exterior" of the planned ballpark. Vaillancourt
     writes that the decision by developer Robert Walsh to step
     down from the Red Sox' ballpark team "caught many observers
     by surprise."  Sources said that Walsh was "disappointed
     that he was unable to persuade" Mayor Thomas Menino to agree
     to "a funding plan that would have the city build and own
     the new park" (BOSTON GLOBE, 8/25).  Also in Boston, Scott
     Van Voorhis writes that "political leaders are beginning to
     cool" toward plans for a new ballpark as the team "appears
     increasingly directionless" in its efforts to pull the deal
     together.  Sources said that team execs are "failing to move
     aggressively" on a variety of fronts, "from closing deals
     with business owners in the path of the new ballpark to
     securing crucial private financing" (BOSTON HERALD, 8/25).  

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