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$159.5 million
See Editor’s Note at the bottom of this story for why the cost estimate for Polar Park has increased to $159.5 million.
Before announcing their plan in August 2018 to bring the Pawtucket Red Sox minor league baseball team to Worcester, city and team leaders already decided exactly where and when the team would move.
A stadium would be built mostly on a hillside parking lot, and where five commercial buildings once stood in the Canal District. The team would start play in its new home in April 2021, since its stadium lease in Pawtucket ended in 2020.
Those decisions – where and when – would send both the city and the now renamed Worcester Red Sox down a fast-moving, complicated path, pushing costs up from the initial $100.8 million estimate to the newly updated $159.5 million today. The site proved far more challenging than even expected, the design plans remained unfinalized until well after construction began, and the ambitious 31-month planning and con
Worcester location chosen as Central Massachusetts super vaccination site
Updated Feb 04, 2021;
The briefing is scheduled for 4 p.m. on the campus of the university.
In discussing a possible site previously, City Manager Edward Augustus Jr. said a site would have the capacity to vaccinate more than 1,000 people per day.
Gillette Stadium began operation as the state’s first mass vacation center last week. Soon after, officials announced Fenway Park would become another hub that could vaccinate thousands per day. Fenway began administering vaccines this week.
The Worcester location joins other mass vaccination sites around that state including the Eastfield Mall in Springfield, the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury and the Doubletree Hotel in Danvers.
‘Not enough’: Worcester officials vowed to implement changes within its police department; Here’s what the city has done
Updated Feb 03, 2021;
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Officials in Worcester congregated with hundreds in the community last June to protest police brutality following the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
Mayor Joseph Petty, City Manager Edward Augustus and Police Chief Steve Sargent participated in the demonstration. They marched to the District Courthouse downtown. They took a knee as a sign of solidarity.
As the calendar now flips to 2021, those actions outside City Hall last June remain highlights of what the city has done in the wake of calls for police reform across the country.
Free walk-up COVID testing in Worcester delayed on Tuesday due to winter storm
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
The nor’easter delayed the start of free walk-up COVID testing in Worcester on Tuesday.
Testing will begin at 1 p.m., two hours later than originally scheduled, at the Mercantile Center at 201 Commercial St. Snow also cut Monday’s testing two-and-a-half hours short.
Tuesday’s walk-up clinic will take place from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be a free walk-up testing clinic on Thursday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Appointments are not required for testing at the Mercantile Center.
Free masks will be provided to those who receive tests.