Boston Red Sox officials have committed to keep Fenway Park their home for years to come. Principal Owner John W. Henry, Chairman Tom Werner, and President/CEO Larry Lucchino made the long-awaited declaration in the .406 Club at the ballpark at a press conference to announce additional future improvements of Fenway Park on Wednesday.
“We have lived at Fenway Park for more than three years,” Lucchino said. “We have studied it in detail. We have studied the Fenway, Kenmore, and Longwood neighborhoods, which are essential components of this ballpark’s life and our fans’ experiences. We have made improvements each of the last three years, and we have major improvements on tap for the next several years. It’s time to culminate this courtship with a loud, clear, long-term public commitment. We are proud that Fenway Park will be our home for years to come, and we are confident it will generate the revenue we need to be successful.”
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The club also provided updates regarding major Fenway improvements scheduled for 2005 and 2006. Among the latter, the club will remove the glass that has separated the fans seated in the .406 Club from the open-air Fenway ambiance since 1989.
“Ever since we arrived, fans have been asking us if we could remove the glass, and we see now that we can do so by 2006,” Lucchino said at the event. “We are eager to restore the lively ambiance that the rest of the fans in the park so enjoy. These will be among the lowest and closest club seats in all of baseball.”
Other improvements already underway for 2005 include a new, level playing field with state-of-the-art drainage; the largest expansion and renovation of the clubhouse in recent history; an expansion of the Third Base Concourse, and the establishment of a year-round restaurant at the corner of Brookline Avenue and Lansdowne Stree, the team said.
