Polar Park Builder Admits Providing Inaccurate Reports That Exaggerated Minority Business Participation
Polar Park, the home of the Worcester Red Sox minor league baseball team. Photographed on April 6, 2021 in Worcester, Mass.
Meredith Nierman
Gilbane /Hunt, the construction manager for Worcester’s new minor league baseball park admitted Friday morning to filing inaccurate reports with the city that overstated the participation of minority-owned businesses in the construction project.
The disclosure follows a GBH News investigation published Thursday that uncovered inaccuracies in Gilbane/Hunt’s reports to the city and found that of more than $100 million in construction contracts awarded for the project, less than 1% went to certified minority-owned subcontractors.
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“For me, as a person who suffers from a chronic illness and is a higher risk for complications, I still am hesitant to be first in line for an mRNA vaccine,” Gaskin said in an email last month. “It’s a new technology and we do not have long-term data at this point. We know safety over six to 10 months, at most.”
WORCESTER The Worcester Redevelopment Authority Friday authorized its chairman to execute a lease agreement with the Worcester Red Sox.
The 3-0 vote will allow one of the last pieces of the deal between the team and the city to bring the top minor league affiliate of the Boston Red Sox to Polar Park, the city-owned ballpark under construction in the Canal District, to fall into place.
Earlier this week, the City Council voted to advertise a loan order to partially cover $17 million in overruns on the ballpark project. The city is handling the financing on the overruns for the team, but the team is responsible for them. In return for the financing, the team agreed to renegotiate several items in the finalized lease agreement, including an extension of the lease for use of the ballpark from 30 to 35 years; an extension of the team s commitment not to relocate from 15 to 25 years; the removal of sponsorship guarantees on the part of the city; and a bigger cut of advertising rev