$159.5 million
See Editor’s Note at the bottom of this story for why the cost estimate for Polar Park has increased to $159.5 million.
Before announcing their plan in August 2018 to bring the Pawtucket Red Sox minor league baseball team to Worcester, city and team leaders already decided exactly where and when the team would move.
A stadium would be built mostly on a hillside parking lot, and where five commercial buildings once stood in the Canal District. The team would start play in its new home in April 2021, since its stadium lease in Pawtucket ended in 2020.
Those decisions – where and when – would send both the city and the now renamed Worcester Red Sox down a fast-moving, complicated path, pushing costs up from the initial $100.8 million estimate to the newly updated $159.5 million today. The site proved far more challenging than even expected, the design plans remained unfinalized until well after construction began, and the ambitious 31-month planning and con
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Local businesses remember Sister Gertrude, longtime ‘begging sister’
Sister Gertrude Crevan, a former “begging sister” with the Little Sisters of the Poor in Pawtucket, died Dec. 19 at the age of 84.
PAWTUCKET – A familiar face to many in the Pawtucket business community died last month.
Sister Gertrude Crevan, 84, a Little Sister of the Poor, died at the order’s residence in Totowa, New Jersey, on Dec. 19. She was buried in Calvary Cemetery alongside her fellow sisters.
Though she lived the last seven years of her life in New Jersey, she resided for more than three decades at the Jeanne Jugan Residence on Main Street, where she fulfilled the role of “begging sister.” Her persistence and dedication to the home’s mission to serve the elderly poor were remembered this month by many who once found themselves on the receiving end of her appeals.
There wasn’t really much of a doubt, but today it became official: The Iowa Cubs will be the Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs through the 2030 season.
The Iowa Cubs have signed their Professional Baseball License to remain a Triple-A affiliate of the Chicago Cubs. More of a formality but it extends Iowa s working relationship with Chicago for 10 more years. Tommy Birch (@TommyBirch) January 28, 2021
Iowa Cubs president and general manager Sam Bernabe: We ve been with the Cubs for 40 years. We look forward to being with them for 50 years. https://t.co/jYm63416ub Tommy Birch (@TommyBirch) January 28, 2021
The Iowa Cubs have been the Cubs top affiliate since 1981, making them now the fifth-longest continuous affiliation in baseball. (Or the fourth-longest, if you consider the newly-relocated Worcester Red Sox to be a different team than the Pawtucket Red Sox.) The 2020 season would have been their 40th year playing Cubs baseball. Now, this upcoming 2021 season will be.
Ron Johnson, longtime coach in the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox and Kansas City Royals organizations, died Tuesday at age 64 because of complicat.
Will Boston Red Sox prospects Tanner Houck, Bryan Mata begin 2021 at Worcester? Projecting who will play for WooSox during inaugural season
Updated Feb 12, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Boston Red Sox s Tanner Houck winds up for a pitch against the New York Yankees in the first inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP
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Many uncertainties surround the Worcester Red Sox’s inaugural season in 2021. Will it begin on time in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic? Will fans be allowed inside Polar Park at any point this summer once the vaccine is available to the general public?