The Boston Phoenix
Fenway Park coverage

[Features]

Where we stand

The offices of the Boston Phoenix will be displaced if the Red Sox are allowed to build a new ballpark in the Fenway neighborhood. The Phoenix has editorialized that players and fans deserve a new park, but that it would be better suited to a different neighborhood, such as Soth Bay. Here's what we said.

Features

Fenway neighborhood may be too expensive for the Red Sox
$90 million may not be enough to buy the land needed for a new park
by Seth Gitell
May 25 - June 1, 2000

Fenway funk
Red Sox brass have nothing new to say about how they'll finance a new ballpark. Is it because they don't have the money to get it done? Or because they plan on robbing taxpayers blind?
by Seth Gitell
May 11 - 18, 2000

Building a better Boston
The year just past saw a lot of spats over construction projects. Consider it a warm-up for what's to come.
by Neil Miller
January 6 - 13, 2000

Name games
The Red Sox say they don't want to sell the name of the new park to the highest corporate bidder. But they don't mind sticking the tab to you.
by Jason Gay
June 17 - 24, 1999

Fenway spark
A quirky neighborhood searches for unity under siege
by Ben Geman
April 1 - 8, 1999

Growing pains
As the millennium looms, Boston development plans spark visions of a new city and fears of frayed neighborhoods
Neighborhoods by Ben Geman
December 31, 1998 - January 7, 1999

Fenway's future
What stands between the media hoopla and building a new ballpark?
by Scott Farmelant & Peter Kadzis
May 7 - 14, 1998

Insider baseball
Where will the new park be built?
By Dan Kennedy
April 3 - 10, 1997

This Just In

Development
Patriots' woes could spell trouble for the Sox
by Laura A. Siegel
April 20 - 27, 2000

Car Talk
More Fenway development will bring pollution
by Laura A. Siegel
April 13 - 20, 2000

Development
Nader says no to new Fenway
by Ben Geman
March 30 - April 6, 2000

Development
Fenway foes play hardball
by Ben Geman
March 9 - 16, 2000

Editorials

Weak-willed Menino
It's time the mayor started leading with the entire city in mind, not just South Boston
June 8 - 15, 2000

Affordable ballparks
Boston needs to consider a new site for the Sox' stadium
June 1 - 8, 2000

Give it up
The Red Sox should abandon their imperious plans for a new park
February 24 - March 2, 2000

Spit ball
The Fenway megaplex proposal raises serious questions, but the mayor and the Red Sox are in bed together. Answers will have to come from the state legislature and the city council.
August 5 - 12, 1999

Fenway fiasco
The team and the fans deserve a new park, but the Sox' plan causes more problems than it solves
June 10 - 17, 1999