Team officials, who are considering two sites in Pawtucket, have released renderings for a new ballpark that would re-create the famed Green Monster wall and the exact field dimensions at Boston's Fenway Park.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. — The Pawtucket Red Sox are developing plans to create a new ballpark whose field dimensions would be a "100 percent replica" of Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.

The team has set sight lines and an "absolute replica" of Fenway's Green Monster wall in left field that players would see when they step up to bat, PawSox Senior Vice President and General Manager Dan Rea told The Providence Journal on Wednesday.

Rea said the new ballpark's design is possible at either of two locations under consideration: the Apex department store and the Tidewater site along Taft Street.

But no final decisions have been made about the site, who would pay for construction and which entity would pay what percentage of construction costs, said Rea, PawSox vice chairman Mike Tamburro and Pawtucket Director of Administration Tony Pires in a joint interview.

They all stressed that any choice must be vetted by the city, state and team. The three parties have committed to work together in determining what's next after a study of McCoy Stadium, released in January, showed it would cost $68 million to renovate the 75-year-old stadium to today's standards, or $78 million to build new on that site.

They also stressed that the PawSox intend to help pay for construction of what Chairman Larry Lucchino said Monday would be a publicly owned stadium.

"I think that ownership is prepared to make a significant contribution," Tamburro said.

Rea noted that the team already plays in a publicly owned stadium. The city owns McCoy, leases it to the state, which then subleases it to the team.

Although team executives are excited by those two possible sites, Lucchino said Monday that Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien still has a soft spot in his heart for McCoy. On Wednesday, Pires insisted that McCoy remains an option: "We have to keep all our options open."

That includes the possibility, Pires said, that the city might seize property in its downtown under eminent domain for a new site.

As for replicating Fenway Park here, the idea is similar to what the Major League Boston Red Sox created with JetBlue Park at Fenway South, the team's spring training ballpark in Fort Myers, Florida, which is about a 90-percent replica, Rea said.

Indeed, Boston Red Sox executives Sam Kennedy and Dave Dombrowski told about 150 corporate sponsors at McCoy Stadium in February that such a replica for the team's Triple-A affiliate in Pawtucket would be a valuable asset for developing players.

On Wednesday, Tamburro reiterated their enthusiasm: "It takes [player] development to a whole different level."

The team released renderings Wednesday to The Providence Journal — more developed images of a new stadium on the Apex site than on the Tidewater site, because they've more recently begun examining Tidewater, Rea said.

With either new ballpark, the dimensions of the field would be a replica of Fenway, and the team is also working to re-create some fan views, but outside the stadium would be different, Rea said.

At the Apex site, even the position of the sun would match Fenway's, with the third-base line pointing north. At the Tidewater site, a new stadium couldn't be positioned with the same sun orientation. Instead, the third-base line points due south there, Rea said.

The team also envisions building more than a ballpark, Rea said. Much the way Fenway is now host to many other uses, a new PawSox stadium also could be used for weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, holiday parties, concerts and ski jumps set up on the field. Rea said they're also considering opening the field for picnics and the seating area as a place where people in the city's downtown could pop in and eat their lunch on a sunny day.

— kbramson@providencejournal.com

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