Green Monster ruined by Fenway Corners project?

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2024

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  • @dannystevens2911
    @dannystevens2911 Рік тому +9

    As a Boston resident, and an architect, that render is misleading. The Monster is 37 feet tall from the field, but significantly taller from Landsdown street. So a 6 story building on the other side of Landsdown won't "tower over" it like these renders allude to. It will be different, but I think Landsdown street is ready for some new development.

    • @SmashTheNumbers
      @SmashTheNumbers Рік тому +2

      Been there dozens of times. You are implying that the field is ABOVE street level. That is NOT the case. If anything, the field is slightly BELOW street level.

  • @adanalyst6925
    @adanalyst6925 Рік тому +17

    When Fenway’s selling point is the history and the aesthetic, you’ve got to protect that. Also great videos Brodie, loving the diversity lately

  • @Darknightdriver1
    @Darknightdriver1 Рік тому +4

    Oh no! Boston is going to have a Mount Davis?!?!?

  • @madfx8058
    @madfx8058 Рік тому +4

    1910s.. and your telling me the Coliseum with all its iconic memories can't be revitalized like Dodger stadium (which is four years older). It's such a shame Fisher let it go...

  • @darryljorden9177
    @darryljorden9177 Рік тому +3

    Getting that Mount Davis vibe.

  • @steven-nb2qu
    @steven-nb2qu Рік тому +3

    Hey Brodie, think about night games and the lights. That cant be fun for the occupants of the building?

  • @danmarsh5949
    @danmarsh5949 Рік тому +1

    In "Fallout 4", WW3 happens in 2077. Somehow Fenway Park survives, in the form it had twenty years ago (ie, before they added the seats on top of the Green Monster). Some of those shots of the streets around the park, give off real Fallout 4 vibes even now. In Fallout 4's world, there's no big office building past left field, therefore it won't happen. Video games predict reality, right?

  • @mradamp125
    @mradamp125 Рік тому +2

    Boston guy here. As a park Fenway stinks. It's not nostalgic it just is a piss poor park experience.

  • @jeffthewhiff
    @jeffthewhiff Рік тому +3

    Speaking of Fenway Park, my late mother used always say jokingly that Boston will never get a new ballpark because people in Boston like "older" archetecture, which I belive is true. My family and I lived in New England many years ago and the majority of people at that time did not like things to change very much, as they were perfectly content to have older buildings as long as they were still structually safe.

    • @sachemofboston3649
      @sachemofboston3649 6 днів тому

      I’m an architecture student in Boston, and I love older buildings too, but the older buildings around Fenway are mostly obsolete. Many of them are 1-3 story buildings without much character that were originally built to be factories or car shops. When Fenway park was built Fenway was relatively under developed. A lot of these new buildings are just taking the place of parking lots, so there aren’t new buildings to be revitalized in a lot of these sites. I think most of the new buildings do a pretty good job at responding to the existing site, while also feeling new and addressing the current needs of Fenway.

  • @johnnydee7727
    @johnnydee7727 Рік тому +1

    The people in the building get free ballgames. They can even put seats on the top of the building.
    And Fenway really needs to replace the 1932 wood seats.
    God bless!

  • @mattmcrae1458
    @mattmcrae1458 Рік тому

    Reminds me of pre and post 2008 Camden Yards when they built that "monstrosity" of a Hilton Hotel beyond left field.

  • @maxpowr90
    @maxpowr90 Рік тому +13

    The original purpose of the Green Monster was to keep spectators from watching the game from the buildings across the street and therefore, not paying for a ticket. It's the same thing with the new videoboard at Gillette Stadium; to prevent spectators outside the venue from watching the game for free.

    • @michaelmarshall8080
      @michaelmarshall8080 Рік тому +3

      The Gillette Stadium renovation had more to do with making FIFA happy for the 2026 World Cup than it did for not letting people watch the game for free from the CBS Scene.

    • @maxpowr90
      @maxpowr90 Рік тому

      @@michaelmarshall8080 As a Patriots STH, the stadium inside is still dumpy. The videoboard is lipstick on a pig.

    • @ShawnTempesta
      @ShawnTempesta Рік тому +2

      Was it? I see that's written in a blog, but reality is Landsdowne is RIGHT there. 310 is an awfully short distance for a normal sized fence. So a higher fence makes it more equivalent to a typical height further away for homeruns.

    • @adzisme
      @adzisme Рік тому

      @@michaelmarshall8080 The Patriots have also bid on a Wrestlemania, and when Taylor Swift comes back on her next tour, she’ll have a huge video board to use.

  • @ShawnTempesta
    @ShawnTempesta Рік тому +3

    That rendering definitely has the building above the Monster. It is grade A real-estate... where I stood for the 1999 HR Derby. The area around Fenway definitely is ripe for redevelopment. I would never want to live on that road owning a car. Nightmare. But... if they can make sure the Citgo Sign is viewable from home plate... that might be the move. Slide the top floor from "off to the side" to a split, and put the lawn roof in between that level so there is a view of the sign.

    • @XxxXxx-br7eq
      @XxxXxx-br7eq Рік тому

      I'm already annoyed by the apartment sign that obstructs the citgo sign from a lot of street angles now

  • @goodcomments8479
    @goodcomments8479 Рік тому +1

    Looks like Mt. Davis. Just extend left field longer.

  • @camarols6
    @camarols6 Рік тому +1

    Boston guy here, we'll take whatever housing we can get. Don't care about the "aesthetic" of the green monster.

  • @jimkipable
    @jimkipable Рік тому

    I agree with you. Massive building just ruins the view. At Target Field they are building a 36 story building at the left field . Very imposing in the ballpark.

  • @ericthompson126
    @ericthompson126 6 місяців тому

    Fenway Park is a relatively small park with no high upper deck seats. Most in the ballpark for a game can't see over the Green Monster now so this will have little impact. This project is great for the Fenway.

  • @robcohen5585
    @robcohen5585 Рік тому +2

    Change in life is inevitable. If that building gets constructed then yes, there will be critics. There always are. But after a few seasons it won't matter. Fans will have gotten used to it and won't pay much, if any, attention to it, especially those in the lower level seats behind home plate and down the base paths. The Green Monster will still be the dominant view. Whether wind patterns will change is a good question. When Petco Park was built it was definitely a pitchers' park. After a lot of the surroundind development was completed (and some fence adjustments) the park plays fairer. Fear not. Fenway will survive and will continue to be a fun place to see a game. No buildings will be constructed on second base.

    • @jeffsherman7346
      @jeffsherman7346 Рік тому +1

      I couldn't agree more. Obviously change is hard but the city must grow and adapt and that means that Fenway won't look the same. Fenway is part of a living city. It's not an artifact in a museum.

    • @adzisme
      @adzisme Рік тому +1

      @@jeffsherman7346 Boston, and every city and town in the Commonwealth, need more housing.
      Building it near the ballpark is what it is.

  • @shg45
    @shg45 Рік тому

    If they are going to build a bigger structure behind the Green Monster, might as well make it a loosely connected part of Fenway Park, with some specific conditions: at least make it aesthetically pleasing enough to play with and be a part of the ballpark (like the "factory building" in Camden Yards or the Western Metal Supply Co. building in Petco Park) and also name that building that will make the Green Monster and this new building can co-exist with each other.
    I'm suggesting some names like the "Red Monster Hotel / The Red Monster" or "Red Giant Inn / The Red Giant" can suffice. (I'm picking color red because Red Sox, also the building needs to be red-ish btw)

  • @tubefreeeasy
    @tubefreeeasy Рік тому

    From the perspective of the pitcher and batter, that wall may look even bigger with a matching green background the new building will exhibit.

  • @travisvaughan567
    @travisvaughan567 Рік тому

    Hopefully they will be able to creat a view corridor so that you can see the Citgo sign. FYI, at some point someone will buy the air rights over Mass Pike and build something over it as well...

  • @joefitz531
    @joefitz531 5 місяців тому

    The buildings on lansdowne st are fine, they just need to replace the parking lot, plus what’s gonna happen to the cask?

  • @jonathanrice1070
    @jonathanrice1070 Рік тому +1

    I grew up with the old screen on the monster. Later they added the Green Monster seats. I don’t think this is a big deal.

    • @SmashTheNumbers
      @SmashTheNumbers Рік тому

      Green Monster seats are very well hidden with the bar top format. Does not change the aestheic much. This would.

  • @stevekassel3301
    @stevekassel3301 Рік тому

    Will make it considerably warmer with far less air flow.

  • @michaelmarshall8080
    @michaelmarshall8080 Рік тому +2

    I don't understand why seeing a modern building beyond the left field wall is such an issue.

    • @user-jv9qz2bu1r
      @user-jv9qz2bu1r Рік тому

      incongrous

    • @MattW30356
      @MattW30356 Рік тому

      People don't like the fact it doesn't fit the aesthetics of the ballpark, a modern structure there will stick out like a sore thumb, that's probably why people feel so negatively about it.

    • @michaelmarshall8080
      @michaelmarshall8080 Рік тому

      @@MattW30356 People are OK with the giant video boards in left center and right center fields, but a modern building being built behind the left field wall is a bridge too far?

    • @MattW30356
      @MattW30356 Рік тому

      @@michaelmarshall8080 doesn't make sense does it?

    • @johntate131
      @johntate131 Рік тому

      It’s not the fact that it’s modern. it will ruin the skyline behind the green monster. Citgo sign will get blocked with most of the blue sky behind it. From business perspectives. The monster was to keep ppl out from seeing games for free. They build this building. Guaranteed they will have the same problem again. If it’s a 1 or 2 story. It wouldn’t be a big deal but from the rendering it looks like it towers over the monster. It’s gaudy, tacky, and has the smell of elitism

  • @njmaxrocks
    @njmaxrocks Рік тому +2

    I'm all for the development

  • @moonglow630
    @moonglow630 Рік тому

    Some of these iconic venues go beyond the ownership of just the cities & clubs themselves. They’re American cultural icons & need to be preserved. I go to Boston every October for my bday. One of the main reasons is because of the history in the city. You add too much new, and that sense of history & culture just fades away & you’ve just got another city.

  • @jeremyd1869
    @jeremyd1869 Рік тому

    Hard to see what's on top. I wonder if seats will be installed like at Wrigley's neighbors?

  • @ABadinsky
    @ABadinsky Рік тому

    Hey! They can almost put another removable roof stadium there

  • @wewantthecup
    @wewantthecup Рік тому +3

    Personal opinion: It's more exciting to see a ball hit a building on a homerun, than to see it disappear into a street. It's like a new giant target for righties.

  • @garethrogue
    @garethrogue Рік тому +1

    If they’re doing this then that means Fenway will NEVER be replaced. There’s no universe where the Sox play in a new stadium like the Yanks did

  • @wewantthecup
    @wewantthecup Рік тому

    1:48 boy, that looks a lot like downtown san jose!

  • @bcpme8637
    @bcpme8637 Рік тому

    The building beyond left will tower over the monster as the field is lower than the surrounding street level.

  • @ronclark9724
    @ronclark9724 Рік тому +5

    I have no problem with the building beyond the Green Monster, but I do with its modern architecture. Better the building had a Edwardian architecture facade similar to buildings built during the pre First World War era similar to the rest of the Fenway Park neighborhood... Lots of stone and brick, not glass and concrete...

  • @evanlegere4154
    @evanlegere4154 7 місяців тому

    My mom worked in the hospital a few blocks from fenway for years. She parked in the garage right behind the monster. I can walk from where i’m typing this to Fenway in about 30 min. For the people that live here, this isn’t a bad thing. These areas aren’t primarily some aesthetic feature, it’s where we live. Id rather have these modern spaces than the golds gym, fences overlooking a highway, and barren, downtown wastelands at one of our biggest tourist destinations. On t.v they barely show the view above the monster, so why do you outsiders care anyways?

  • @davidmoorhead
    @davidmoorhead 4 місяці тому

    This just popped up for me even though it's almost a year old. I live 14 miles from Fenway Park on the South Shore. The area around the park is absolutely getting destroyed. The MGM venue in centerfield is so, so shitty. I hate it. And John Henry seemingly has been hanging out with John Fisher and taking lessons on how to be "frugal" even tho the team is better than what we expected on paper. I still think they're going to be trash by mid August. These ballpark villages are absolutely lame.

  • @bruinsfan3838
    @bruinsfan3838 Рік тому +1

    Right mine as well ruin it some more by adding a roof above Fenway

  • @patrickvanwye4042
    @patrickvanwye4042 Рік тому +2

    Boston building it's own Mt. Davis.

  • @Just_Klaatu
    @Just_Klaatu Рік тому

    What about wind currents? More HRs?

  • @rhodesfunk2996
    @rhodesfunk2996 Рік тому +1

    The neighborhood surrounding around Fenway park desperately needs a revitalization and the ballpark seems very disconnected to the Kenmore side of Fenway due to the Mass Pike which is just a busy highway. Other than maybe the Cask on the corner there isn't anything on Lansdowne that I would be sad to see go and if they can expand over the highway to connect Fenway to the rest of the neighborhood I would see that as a win. The building behind the Monster is certainly the most concerning factor especially considering that it seems very intentional that it was placed there. It's hard to imagine watching a game from the monster in the shadows of a 6 story building, how monsterous will the monster look then? I'm hoping they just included that building in the rendering knowing what the obvious public reaction would be, so they can get some good press when they announce they are revising the plans to appease the fans.

    • @rhodesfunk2996
      @rhodesfunk2996 Рік тому

      Actually forget all this garbage they better figure out the damn roster and get this team to the playoffs before trying to become urban planners what a joke

    • @THEBIGLIE20
      @THEBIGLIE20 Рік тому +1

      I politely disagree. I feel like you haven’t been there in a while. It’s all new and clean. Have you seen the MGM music hall and everything around that area ??

    • @rhodesfunk2996
      @rhodesfunk2996 Рік тому

      ​@@THEBIGLIE20 Uhh I live here and and will end going to over 50 games at Fenway this season. If everything in the area is new and clean then so is my asshole.

  • @zcorpalpha2462
    @zcorpalpha2462 Рік тому

    2029
    Fenway will be Torn down, for a New Ballpark Stadium 🏟️ for the Boston Red Sox
    I’m calling it now 🔥🥃

  • @joshuanakagawa9804
    @joshuanakagawa9804 Рік тому +1

    I’m from the Bay Area; a lifelong A’s fan. But I grew up in New England, and rooted for my team, when they came to play against the Red Sox. A fair bit has changed at Fenway, since I was a kid. Would certainly be sad to see the iconic views be obstructed by new construction.

  • @SmashTheNumbers
    @SmashTheNumbers Рік тому +1

    That building looks boring. Make it brick... maybe a cool tower like in Petco or a warehouse feel like Ford Field or Camden Yards?

  • @ChrisTashjian
    @ChrisTashjian Рік тому

    100% agree, exactly why I said “oh hell no”

  • @splashnskillz37
    @splashnskillz37 Рік тому

    Makes that dump look a bit prettier at least

  • @GrimmelSummascriptus
    @GrimmelSummascriptus Рік тому +5

    With previous changes, "The Green Monster" has already become "The Wall of Merchandising" and lost much of its unique character. It does remain an interesting obstacle to hitting a home run in left field, but the addition of a modern building behind it will further drag an iconic ballpark into the dark destiny of American baseball - a crass commercial endeavor appealing to modern convenience and maximum monetization. True baseball fans know how to look past all of these distracting trappings to see The Great Game, but its getting more expensive and more annoying to be one of the faithful.

    • @NathanMoist
      @NathanMoist Рік тому

      What do you mean by "Wall of Merchandising"? The advertisements on it?

    • @GrimmelSummascriptus
      @GrimmelSummascriptus Рік тому

      @@NathanMoist Yes

    • @NathanMoist
      @NathanMoist Рік тому +3

      @@GrimmelSummascriptus There are less advertisements on it now than there were in the 1920s thru around the 1960s from looking at historical photos. With the game becoming more televised in the 60s they decided to make the parks look "cleaner" and removed all the advertising. When the retro parks started in the 90s the advertising came back with them.

    • @adzisme
      @adzisme Рік тому

      @@NathanMoist Look at pics of Fenway from the 30s and 40s; every available square inch had ads on it.

    • @NathanMoist
      @NathanMoist Рік тому +1

      @@adzisme Yeah, that was my point. More ads then than now.

  • @Trashman702
    @Trashman702 Рік тому

    Who would want to live across the street from a stadium with retail and dining? Noise, traffic and people are something I try to stay as far away from as possible

  • @bamkobe1
    @bamkobe1 Місяць тому

    Will it ruin the view of the citgo sign????

  • @alcarbo8613
    @alcarbo8613 Рік тому +4

    It looks AWFUL just AWFUL
    Who thought that was a good idea?

  • @westcoast9285
    @westcoast9285 Рік тому +1

    Need more jobs and housing let ‘em
    Build

    • @XxxXxx-br7eq
      @XxxXxx-br7eq Рік тому

      They should get rid of some of the golf courses for that

  • @kthmalloy16
    @kthmalloy16 Рік тому

    Fenways mount Davis?

  • @danabrown4647
    @danabrown4647 Рік тому +2

    Everything must change. Nothing stays the same.

  • @dogcowrph
    @dogcowrph Рік тому

    Maybe the Ted Sox could just build apartments into Fenway Park itself.
    Of course this is ridiculous. I lived three blocks away for twenty years. I think they would like to just take over the whole neighborhood.
    I don’t like this. Maybe it will grow on my but I doubt it.

  • @erickurtz2750
    @erickurtz2750 Рік тому

    I thought you were an 80s fan Brody so why does the Boston Red Sox Fenway park green monster thing why does that what does that interest you so much I mean obviously they’re trying to do it to make it somewhat of a similar model to like Wrigley Field they want to drill more business more revenue so that makes sense but Fenway Park is still gonna be unique and from depending on which way you’re sitting if it even happens yeah I might be approved but something might come up and it ends up getting ends up not getting to happen so I just have to wait and see now I can see a lot of Red Sox fans not liking it says that you’re a season-ticket holder that makes sense

  • @colleenlynch1359
    @colleenlynch1359 11 місяців тому

    Construction around Fenway had to be done those building were looking run down

  • @junkbox_
    @junkbox_ Рік тому +1

    I thought Fenway would have had historical protection that would prohibit this kind of thing.
    New idea: Walmart above the ivy at Wrigley. Let's do it!

    • @adzisme
      @adzisme Рік тому

      Wrigley has its own development, including a hotel, next to the ballpark.
      Busch Stadium in St. Louis has a new office and apartment building across the street from the ballpark.

  • @Meltpop
    @Meltpop Рік тому

    Didn’t the person who wanted to build the green monster wanted it so the people outside the park can’t see it for free… That building kinda defeats the purpose of that

    • @SmashTheNumbers
      @SmashTheNumbers Рік тому

      Unless they get eleventy billion dollars from the people in that building.

  • @curtisharvey5579
    @curtisharvey5579 Рік тому

    Not exactly a "monster" if there's a building towering over it...

  • @ABadinsky
    @ABadinsky Рік тому

    On the 5 acres

  • @hateca1
    @hateca1 Рік тому

    They don’t care what anyone says they are going to do what they want. Fans opinions mean nothing they A’s train wreck should’ve told you that.

  • @rickfromthecape3135
    @rickfromthecape3135 Рік тому

    Fenway Sports Group has only one goal. Money. They care nothing about the fans.

  • @Mondorulezdood89
    @Mondorulezdood89 Рік тому +1

    This is just horrible even worse than the condos across from McCovey cove

  • @erickurtz2750
    @erickurtz2750 Рік тому

    Nobody has done what Ohtani has done since oh I meant Babe Ruth but you made that video July 8 and IDK to an extent yes but you saying it’s not all about winning and losing why do you think he would wanna go there I mean yeah he wants credibility he wants somewhere where he’s gonna he’s gonna be it’s gonna have it’s going to be stable but he’s gonna want to go somewhere to win more than one World Series I think Arizona is a team Home the Astros the Rangers of Tampa I mean what I rather MCU I’m go to the Giants then go to the Yankees yeah the only bad thing is is he’s not gonna have no leverage if they how I’m trades try to trade him now if he gets a free agency then he’s gonna have more leverage but yes I do think that he’ll get at least 11 you said he’s 29 so he might get lucky and get 13 I mean I wouldn’t say it Mookie Betts is a better player I mean yeah Grant he plays first base but for a picture to do what Ohtani is doing is it’s unique because you know you don’t see that type of player very often so yeah I think he’ll he wants to go somewhere I think that he rather stay on the West Coast where he can practice your round but if you want to talk best player Barry Bonds is a better player than Buster Posey even though Buster Posey was a catcher but the Giants have won several World Series but Anaheim hasn’t made the playoffs since 2009 well it’s not necessarily mike trouts fault you that’s not Ohtani‘s fault but there’s gonna be a lot of other teams are going to have interest in Ohtani that I can guarantee but Anaheim is going to want some draft picks and some prospects and some players I can play right now now there’s no guarantee yet the Dodgers will give them the years that he hopes to get Seattle’s another team you got the Mariners you got the Rangers and you got the Astros you’ve got the Blue Jays as well the Astros and the Rangers they won’t be scared to spend the money does that to pay the luxury tax I’d rather see him go to the Astros or go to the Rangers and go to the Yankees but he doesn’t get trade and he still with Anaheim until November then that’s going to surprise a lot of other fans and a lot of other teams but there’s only I think like 10 days left 1014 days left I think the trade deadline is August 1 but yeah obviously it’s that’s that’s one of the things that he wants the best deal he can get his best offer I don’t blame him

  • @cliffhubbard6095
    @cliffhubbard6095 Рік тому

    Money Grab…Greed

  • @DrewPenagiotis-ce2li
    @DrewPenagiotis-ce2li Рік тому

    No wonder there not spending money on team, more homeless in Boston

  • @fakefootball8407
    @fakefootball8407 Рік тому

    So where's everyone gonna park? All those new buildings bring more traffic. Wouldn't go to a game there, iven if I was a RS fan.

    • @adzisme
      @adzisme Рік тому +1

      You take the T or Uber. Simple.

    • @fakefootball8407
      @fakefootball8407 Рік тому

      @@adzisme There's no rail lines around Fenway Park and who's gonna pay 50 or more bucks for an Uber both ways? Are you crazy?.

    • @adzisme
      @adzisme Рік тому

      @@fakefootball8407 There is a T stop a couple of blocks from Fenway.
      If you’re looking for places to park, you can find them several blocks from Fenway, where you’ll pay $75 and up for spaces near the venue.