WRA signs off on $7.8M in land deals for WooSox ballpark
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A rendering of Polar Park
The Worcester Redevelopment Authority is closer to controlling all land necessary for the $101-million ballpark for the soon-to-be Worcester Red Sox after taking several actions Friday.
The agency, responsible for the ballpark project and facilitating the overall $240-million redevelopment of the Canal District on mostly vacant manufacturing land, voted to adopt an order of taking and accept a confirmatory deed for $5.8 million for six properties needed for the ballpark.
Those properties are 85 Green St., 2 Plymouth St., 90 Washington St. and 5,7 and 8 Gold St.
The WRA voted to give $2 million to MedStar for two parcels on Washington Street as part of an acquisition and relocation settlement.
After the meeting, Chief Redevelopment Officer Michael Traynor said all businesses needing to be relocated have found new homes and are receiving assistance from the city’s relocation specialist.
Some businesses have even agreed to leave the Canal District behind by the end of the month despite state law allowing for four months to move after eminent domain action, Traynor said.
The city has taken action on all ancillary properties needed for the new home of the Pawtucket Red Sox, and the only property outstanding is the former Wyman Gordon parcel, which happens to be the largest.
Denis Dowdle, a private developer planning about $140 million of private development across the street to help support the ballpark, purchased that parcel as part of a $6.1-million acquisition of all vacant Wyman-Gordon land earlier this year. Some of that land is on the ballpark site, and he is expected to convey that land to the WRA shortly.
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