Preserve, don’t discard, McCoy Stadium

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To the Editor:

I don’t think that the new owners of the PawSox want to keep the team in Rhode Island. The new owners are smart businessmen and they will want to build their new $70 million ballpark in a location that will guarantee the success of the team. The proposed site in Providence does not seem to meet this standard. The only site that would make the investment of $100 million worthwhile is the land adjacent to Gillette Stadium’s MBTA commuter rail station in Foxboro, Mass. A new ballpark built in this location could be expanded in the future to replace an aging Fenway Park.

I suggest that Rhode Island make these new owners an offer that would save them over $65 million. If the new PawSox owners would invest $15 million to renovate McCoy Stadium, Rhode Island would match these funds over a five-year period. If a ballpark built in 1912 can be successfully renovated, surely a ballpark built in 1942 can be successfully renovated.  McCoy Stadium, like Fenway Park, is a historic site that should be preserved and not thrown away like an old shoe.

Kenneth Berwick
Smithfield

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