That would explain the tone and tenor of their never-ending, $elf-$erving, agenda-pu$hing propaganda:
"Red Sox and partners unveil details of plans for development around Fenway Park; The ambitious project calls for 2.1 million square feet of office, housing, and retail space" by Tim Logan Globe Staff, January 29, 2021
The streets around Fenway Park could be transformed over the next few years under development plans filed Friday by the owners of Red Sox and its partners.
Fenway Sports Group, the D’Angelo Family, and WS Development shared their clearest vision yet of plans to redevelop eight acres around the historic ballpark. A letter to the Boston Planning & Development Agency outlined a project that calls for 2.1 million square feet of offices, housing, and retail in four in buildings along Jersey and Landsdowne streets. Jersey Street would be permanently closed to vehicular traffic and become a “year-round public gathering space.”
Specifics — such as building heights and the precise mix of uses — will be fleshed out as the project moves closer to BPDA review. Yanni Tsipis, who is leading the project for WS, said the developers hope to work closely with neighborhood groups to shape a project that makes sense for everyone.
“This is the first small step on a journey to transform the public experience around the ballpark,” Tsipis said. “We look forward to working with our Fenway neighbors to create something beautiful that embraces its historic context and is welcoming to all.”
All that are left after the vaccine genocide they are rushing to fruition.
The project — years in the planning — makes the Red Sox and their neighbors, the D’Angelos, the latest major Fenway landowners to join the widespread transformation of the area. (Fenway Sports Group principal owner John Henry also owns The Boston Globe.) Samuels & Associates has built a corridor of apartment and office buildings along Boylston, while work is getting underway on the long-planned Fenway Center project above the Massachusetts Turnpike along Beacon Street.
The scale of what Fenway Sports Group and its partners have in mind appears closer to those projects than the low-slung buildings that surround the ballpark today, though both the letter and early design renderings suggest that the historic facades of existing buildings will remain in place.
“The Project’s guiding principle is to allow the city fabric to envelop and embrace the historic ballpark and create welcoming, people-first places and buildings that contribute to the quality and vitality of the public realm in the heart of the Fenway neighborhood year-round,” WS wrote in its letter to the BPDA.
They also plan to shut down Jersey Street — which today is closed on Red Sox game days but otherwise open to traffic — to create a permanent pedestrian plaza alongside Fenway Park. That would happen only after the extension of Ross Way — which today connects Boylston and Van Ness Streets — all the way through to Brookline Avenue A mix of storefronts and taller buildings would line Jersey Street, according to images filed with the letter.
The project also calls for buildings on a large surface parking lot across Brookline Avenue from Fenway Park, and on the site of a squat garage along Landsdowne Street behind the Green Monster. Longer term, the group is considering building a so-called “air rights” development over the Turnpike behind that garage — though those highly-complex projects typically take years of careful planning.
Thankfully, the project has been years in the planning.
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"Red Sox owners, partners plan major redevelopment around Fenway Park; Five-acre project would include offices, apartments, retail stores, and possibly a hotel" by Michael Silverman and Tim Logan Globe Staff, October 19, 2020
The owners of the Red Sox are moving into the real estate development business, partnering with a prominent developer in an ambitious, long-term venture that would transform the neighborhood just outside the walls of Fenway Park.
The five-acre project would feature office space, apartment buildings, retail stores, and possibly a hotel, along with public art and green space. It would be built on four sites along Jersey, Lansdowne, and Van Ness streets, as well as Brookline Avenue.
The parcels are owned by Fenway Sports Group Real Estate — a subsidiary of the Red Sox’s parent company, Fenway Sports Group — and the D’Angelo family, owners of the sports apparel company ’47 Brand.
The D’Angelos and FSGRE are partnering with WS Development ― a veteran retail developer that in recent years has shepherded the 23-acre Seaport Square complex ― to steer design and construction of the project.
The codevelopers said that while extensive planning has begun, they’re still working out many details, such as cost, square footage, building heights, and the exact mix of what they intend to build. They’re also considering the prospect of one day building out over the Massachusetts Turnpike behind Lansdowne Street, which would enable more ambitious development. On Monday, they notified community leaders and elected officials from the Fenway neighborhood about the project.
The group — including Sam Kennedy, president and CEO of the Red Sox; Bobby D’Angelo, vice president of ’47 Brand; and Jeremy Sclar, CEO of WS Development — have discussed a partnership for more than a decade, but those talks gained momentum over the last 18 months. Even as FSG has spent $350 million to refurbish the 108-year-old ballpark over the last 18 years, it gradually purchased nearby properties in anticipation of development.
“We are not some joint venture that is just looking to maximize height or density. We want to create value, but we have to make sure we do no harm to Fenway Park and the fan experience,” Kennedy said.
Who cares anymore?
Honestly, I never even check the $ports channels these days.
It's a surreal world where everything is "normal."
It's not, but the $ports-talking $hitheads must act like it is.
Few neighborhoods in Boston have undergone as much development over the past two decades as the Fenway, with the fast-food joints and gas stations of Boylston Street giving way to office and apartment buildings, their ground floors full of vibrant restaurants that ― before the just-ended baseball season with no fans in attendance ― have thrived on game-day crowds and a surging student population.
Lately, a wave of life-science companies have moved in, as well, eyeing the Fenway’s proximity to Longwood Medical Area. More are coming, with work about to start on two towers above the Massachusetts Turnpike between Beacon Street and Brookline Avenue, part of the massive Fenway Center project, but the low-slung blocks immediately surrounding Fenway Park haven’t changed much.
Yeah, life $ciences are booming and that's a big component of the coming medical dystopia and tyranny being promoted at every turn by the Globe.
Sounds so benign, doesn't it?
All the loot that went into the oligarchs hands is now being used to advance our en$lavement.
The people have been hoodwinked, and it is all the more heartbreaking because the Globe is for it.
May they be damned to hell for all eternity.
“For 20 years, our goal has been to preserve, protect, and enhance the local and national treasure that is Fenway Park,” FSG principal owner John Henry said in a statement. (Henry also owns The Boston Globe.) “We are excited to now fully expand our focus through a partnership with WS and the D’Angelo family as we further contribute to a neighborhood that has transformed over the past two decades.”
That partnership has been decades in the making, as well.
The D’Angelos opened their store on Jersey Street in 1947 and gradually began accumulating land in the triangle between Jersey Street and Brookline Avenue, where they now own nine small parcels. When FSG — then called New England Sports Ventures — bought Fenway and its 9.67 acres in 2002, a relationship naturally grew.
“They always had interest in our Jersey Street [location] because it’s good property and it’s right at their doorstep,” said Bobby D’Angelo, who said he has received several substantial offers for his real estate over the years. “This deal was the right deal. We think that everyone is prospering by it."
$igh.
WS will bring development expertise to the project. The Boston-area company has built suburban shopping centers such as Legacy Place in Dedham and The Street in Chestnut Hill, but it is perhaps best known now for leading the development of Seaport Square, where it’s constructing office buildings for Amazon and Foundation Medicine and bringing an array of retailers to the neighborhood.
Some elements of Seaport Square may be worked into the Fenway plans, Sclar said, including efforts to make it more pedestrian- and bike-friendly, and to add public art and green space. But he stressed there are key differences.
“Our job in the Fenway is to create public space at the ground level that will be embraced by the neighborhood and Greater Boston,” Sclar said. “Fenway’s urban. It isn’t like the Seaport, where there was a lot of land to work with.”
Indeed, the project won’t be contiguous. Its four distinct sites range from a large surface parking lot along Brookline Avenue to the stores and warehouses on Jersey Street, to a parking garage on Lansdowne Street where the developers are loath to build too tall, lest they block iconic views of the Citgo sign from inside the ballpark.
More detailed plans are likely to be filed next year, with probably months of community meetings and Boston Planning & Development Authority reviews to follow. Several people active in the neighborhood said they are anxious to see what the group has in mind and will watch closely to ensure that it meets the goals of the broader Fenway neighborhood.
“I’m looking forward to talking with this partnership about all the ways in which their development can be responsive to neighborhood needs through investments in the public realm, affordable housing, and carbon neutrality," said City Councilor Kenzie Bok, who represents the area. "Our urban fabric reaches its best form when large institutions like the Red Sox work closely with the communities in which they are embedded on major projects like this.”
It all sounds so good, doesn't it?
In addition to housing, retail, office, and lab space ― and maybe a hotel ― the development could allow the Red Sox to leave their cramped offices in Fenway Park. That would also free up room in Fenway’s concourses. A new ’47 Brand team store will fit in somewhere, if not necessarily in its current spot across from Fenway’s Jersey Street gates.
Longer-term, building something larger on a deck over the Mass. Pike could vastly increase the scale of development and help knit together the Fenway, Back Bay, and South End neighborhoods, but so-called air rights developments are notoriously complex — Fenway Center took two decades of planning — so the group decided to push ahead with a smaller project first.
“We think there is an opportunity" to build over the Pike, Sclar said. “We’re going to spend time really thinking about it deeply, and we’re not going to let that hold this up.”
As for timing, Sclar said the group isn’t dissuaded by the COVID-19 pandemic, which has prompted many companies to have employees work from home and has hurt Boston’s office market, at least for now. Demand for life-science space remains voracious, he notes, and Longwood isn’t going anywhere. Nor will Fenway be this quiet forever.
“We’re thinking out five, 10, 20 years,” he said. “We have conviction in the city; the city has an amazing future. This project will be built and open after [the pandemic] is a bad memory.”
The $ox are starting to $tink of in$ult, aren't they?
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Alexandria Real Estate Equities plans to continue developing the former Sears complex as a hub for life science companies, and work is also underway on a new nine-story lab building in Watertown at Arsenal Yards with life-sciences-oriented office space leading to high-quality life science-products in the area, and others are thinking the same way as they move forward.
The news is not expected to alter the Boston-based global sports conglomerate’s drive to expand its portfolio by purchasing new sports-related properties.
So when the startup ecosystem comes out, perhaps next summer or fall, what will it be like, and will it produce the same level of activity and economic growth?
"Even if you think you have no connection to Boston’s startup ecosystem, the startup ecosystem is connected to you. For about the last 75 years, Boston has been a pretty good place to start a company, get venture capital funding, hire people, and grow — whether you’re a Moderna making vaccines or a tech startup like Toast, making it possible for people to use their mobile phones to order take-out, but the nebulous idea of an ecosystem is what has caused these companies to set up shop in Kendall Square, the Fenway, and the Seaport. It has kept cafés crowded and dry cleaners busy, sent taxes to cities and the state, and driven up both office and apartment rents around much of Greater Boston. The flow of people to and from work every day caused time-sucking traffic — but it also kept public transit full, created work for Uber and Lyft drivers, and generated strong advocacy for bike lanes. The expansion of this tech and biotech ecosystem supported lots of jobs at law firms and accounting firms, not to mention the construction of hotels to host business guests from out of town. It also benefited the bars, bowling alleys, and movie theaters that entertained everybody after work. Be honest — 10 years ago, did you imagine someone would find it economically viable to build a bowling alley next to a federal courthouse in Boston? That ecosystem isn’t dead; it’s just in hibernation, but when it comes out, perhaps next summer or fall, what will it be like, and will it produce the same level of activity and economic growth? Last week, I brought together a group of people who work at venture capital firms, run trade associations, operate shared workspaces, and have built startups in Boston, and asked them to try to tackle those questions.. We used an app called Space, created by a local entrepreneur, which aims to make it easy to schedule and conduct audio-only conference calls. I’ll list some of the concerns first, followed by the more optimistic takes on the ecosystem’s ability to bounce back......"
They are $o full of them$elves over there it makes one $ick.
Related:
"In a sign of the times for Boston’s beleaguered hotel industry, a popular Kenmore Square hotel just sold at a loss. It’s a rare reversal in price for a trophy piece of Boston real estate, which for the most part has only gone up in value over the last decade, but it has been an unusual nine months in the real estate market, especially for hotels, whose bookings have evaporated amid a pandemic that has largely shut down both business and leisure travel. Boston has been particularly hard-hit....."
Thankfully, the Fenway Sports Group also recently unveiled plans for a major development project around Fenway Park that could eventually extend over the turnpike, behind the Hotel Commonwealth.
"The hotel industry has a new idea to get Americans to return: offer their locations as vaccine distribution sites. The American Hotel and Lodging Association, a trade group that represents hotels such as Marriott International Inc. and Red Roof Inn as well as vendors and suppliers, sent a letter Thursday to the Biden-Harris transition team asking that their buildings be considered as an option as states decide where to administer shots. Chip Rogers, chief executive of the group, points out that there are more than 50,000 hotels in the United States, sporting private rooms, refrigeration capabilities, and 24-hour operations."
Enjoy the Posh $tay.
Can the camps and Green Zones be far off, folks?
This thing is f**king happening.
They are going to go door-to-door and haul people away under the cover of the nonexistent COVID-19, a "disease" that has never been isolated and for which you must take a batch of poison.
It is an “ideal location to bring a new, modern, and flexible office building to the community,” even if it causes headaches for some.
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Better pull yourself up by your own bootstraps:
"Here’s a look inside the mass vaccination center opening at Fenway Park on Monday" by Anissa Gardizy Globe Correspondent, January 29, 2021
Workers at Fenway Park will be preparing hundreds of shots at a Sam Adams-themed bar on Monday — shots of the COVID-19 vaccine, that is.
A section of the baseball stadium concourse near third base has been converted into a mass vaccination site, and next week it will open for people eligible to receive the shots.
That's where communists also take their victims to be murdered.
This is why the $ports teams are not allowing fans or anything else over this renaming of seasonal cold and flu.
Health care professionals will aim to inoculate 500 people every day next week with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine before ramping up and eventually vaccinating 1,250 people daily. The Fenway site is expected to stay open until April when baseball season gets underway, so people will be able to make appointments for second doses of the shot elsewhere.
The shots will be administered next to a concession stand and a bar, which during baseball season sells hot dogs and slices of pizza. There, health care professionals will sit at about a dozen makeshift vaccination stations, receiving a steady stream of doses from the nurses behind the bar, which normally has Sam Adams beer flowing on tap.
“When people tell their friends and family and post pictures, it gets more people excited about getting vaccinated, whether it is here or elsewhere,” said Rachel Wilson, the chief operating officer of CIC Health, a newly formed Cambridge technology company which is running operations and logistics at Fenway Park, along with several partners.
This is really becoming reprehensible, what they are doing.
Not only are they flat-out liars given the massive hesitancy they are encountering, but the medical e$tabli$hment are pushing forward a criminal agenda.
CIC Health spun out of the Cambridge Innovation Center, an office space operator, seven months ago to address the need for streamlined testing and vaccinations.
Yeah, the Globe has been promoting them rather heavily:
"The group charged with managing the state’s first large-scale COVID-19 vaccination site was formed about six months ago, and it is a company with roots and expertise in operating co-working and testing sites, not poking people in the arm. CIC Health, a Cambridge technology company, has been tapped by the state to manage vaccine administration at Gillette Stadium, which will first offer the COVID-19 vaccine from a fellow Cambridge firm, Moderna. Governor Charlie Baker has said this location, which had a soft launch on Thursday, could vaccinate up to 5,000 people per day once it’s in full swing. The news underscores how the Boston-area business community has pivoted to play a prominent role in the state’s pandemic recovery. CIC Health is a subsidiary of the Cambridge Innovation Center, a co-working company founded and led by Tim Rowe....."
I said it long ago last spring regarding everything (hotels, colleges, stadiums) being turned into camps, and now it looks we will all be buffaloed in to empty stadiums for the mass slaughter.
I fear the fabulous Greencrow is right, "They cannot turn back. They cannot stop the insanity. They are ALL IN!"
Dr. Chris Kaufmann, the site’s vaccine coordinator, said an ultra-cold freezer is on site in a secure location, as well as pharmacy-grade refrigerators where the Pfizer-BioNTech doses thaw overnight.
“Everybody speaks about the difficulties of storing [the vaccine] . . . at the end of the day you just have to sit down and think about [it],” Kaufman said, responding to a question on how to store a vaccine in a ballpark. “Everything is doable.”
Wilson said the team is taking what it learned at the mass vaccine site at Gillette Stadium, which it opened on Jan. 18, and applying it to the setup at Fenway. That includes efforts to control traffic flow to avoid long lines from forming.
“One of the great things about this venue is that we are protected from the elements here on the concourse, but we are also somewhat exposed to outdoor air,” Wilson said during a tour of the site for members of the media on Friday. A heater will be in the vaccination area to help keep people warm as they await their shots, she said.
Yeah, you can get sick before they make you sick with the shot.
It's in single digits here today, so enjoy your wait!
What is the carbon footprint on such insanity anyway, and why does it not matter now?
These are the same people telling you to open the school windows in the dead of winter of this f**king fraud.
Wilson said she is hoping the iconic location at Fenway Park, like Gillette Stadium, will make people feel more comfortable about getting the shot.
“There is a certain pride, excitement, and energy that comes with being in this setting,” she said Friday inside the stadium.
I guess no insult they won't forgot in order to propagandize you into taking their poison.
According to the state’s map of vaccination sites, two other large-scale sites are in operation, one at Eastfield Mall in Springfield and one at a DoubleTree hotel in Danvers.
That's odd because I was just told there wasn't one out here.
It's never-ending lies no matter what, isn't it?
Sick of the gaslighting, to be honest.
Wilson said wheelchairs will be available for those who may need them to navigate the ballpark. The process is estimated to take between 45 minutes and an hour, and bathrooms will be available inside the stadium.
“It is really important that we remain accessible to everybody who needs to come here,” Wilson said.
Parking may be a challenge, however, as people will have to find spots in lots or on the street, and that will not be free. The stadium is near a Green Line stop.
The state is still vaccinating individuals that are part of the Phase 1 timeline, which includes health care workers and first responders, since some have yet to receive their first or second shot.
Starting Monday, those aged 75 and older will become eligible to receive a shot as well.
Of course, we are told there are shortages of doses so....
.... I mean this kind of "reporting" would be laughable were it not so diabolical.
Wilson said she expects the stadium will remain open during snow, which is expected next week. If the site needs to close due to unsafe weather, she said CIC Health would help people reschedule their appointments, which are made one week at a time. Appointment slots will be based on the supply of the vaccine available.
People with appointments next week will enter the stadium at Gate A on Jersey Street, where they will check in at one of five desks to complete a health screening. They will then join a socially distanced queue indoors, which is meant to prevent lines from forming outside.
After receiving a shot, people will be asked to wait 15 to 30 minutes in an observation area so medical staff can monitor them for any adverse reactions. While waiting, they will be encouraged to make appointments for their second dose, either on their smart phone or on available laptops, but they can also schedule the appointments after they leave.....
According to the Globe, allergic reactions are rare.
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Time to head over to Gillette:
"State to open first mass coronavirus vaccination site at Gillette Stadium" by Martin Finucane Globe Staff, January 12, 2021
Massachusetts has finalized plans for its first mass coronavirus vaccination site, which will be located at Gillette Stadium, Governor Charlie Baker said Tuesday.
Baker said the first doses would be administered there Thursday for staff and it would be open for first responders on Monday.
The site is expected to start by doing 300 vaccinations per day, but will build up to administering 5,000 vaccines per day and “potentially much bigger numbers than that over time,” Baker said.
The state is in the middle of a phased vaccination campaign that began with front-line health care workers and people living in long-term care facilities. It began Monday to vaccinate first responders at 119 sites around the state.
“These vaccines are safe and effective . . . This is a huge step forward in our fight, and we are progressing in our vaccination plan as we hoped we would,” Baker said.
He is a f**king mass-murdering liar then (probably a mason now that one thinks about it).
Baker said that “in the first few days there has been an overwhelmingly positive response from first responders to get vaccinated. The challenge, we hope, will be keeping up with the demand.”
He said the mass vaccination sites had been set up “so that we can quickly ramp up the number of folks who have safe access to a vaccine in a big way as the federal government moves to ramp up their distribution plans. These sites will be available to first responders, as they open, and other eligible individuals later as we move through our vaccine distribution program.”
Baker said more than 209,000 people so far had received doses of the vaccine as of Tuesday, but that number could actually be an underestimate due to reporting delays. The state issues a weekly report on vaccine distribution on Thursdays.
Speaking at a news conference at a first responder vaccination site at the Worcester Senior Center, Baker reiterated familiar public health advice, asking people to wear masks, to avoid gathering in groups, and stay home wherever possible.
“Don’t let your guard down,” he said. “We need to keep this up a little longer.”
F**k off, you f**king a$$hole!!
Acknowledging that the vaccine rollout had been “bumpy,” Baker said one problem has been a lack of information from federal officials on what to expect regarding vaccine supplies coming to the state.
He said the issue with the federal distribution of vaccines has been, “How much visibility can you give us so that we can plan accordingly with respect to what’s coming next? The last thing we want to do is open up a whole bunch of sites and have a whole bunch of people there and not have vaccine available to actually serve people.”
He said he believed, however, that “as the manufacturing process has ramped up, they’ve gotten better about understanding how much they can expect in their pipeline.”
He said the state would be ready to distribute whatever vaccines it receives from the federal government. “We will move as quickly as the distribution plan moves,” he said.
The Trump administration recommended on Tuesday giving a coronavirus vaccine to everyone 65 and older in the United States, in an effort to accelerate vaccine distribution. Baker said a state advisory group would take a look at the guidance and he would see what they recommended.
The Globe got a "sneak peek" at the place:
"Media gets sneak peek at Gillette Stadium mass coronavirus vaccination site" by Anissa Gardizy and Travis Andersen Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff, January 15, 2021
FOXBOROUGH — Gillette Stadium sat empty this football season, a surreal scene that could hardly have been imagined before the pandemic came, but starting Monday, the home of the New England Patriots will become a large-scale COVID-19 vaccination clinic, providing a glimmer of hope for a state that has lost more than 13,000 residents to the virus. First responders are eligible to receive the vaccine on Monday, and the site will open to more people as the state proceeds with its phased immunization program.
These f**kers are criminal, including the reporters.
May they burn in hell forever.
On Friday, members of the media toured the site, entering through the 40,000 square-foot Putnam Club, often used as a ballroom or meeting area. All visitors will need to pass a “wellness assessment,” either online or through Gillette Stadium’s smartphone app, to enter the facility. After completing the check, they can take an escalator to a registration area — and a stunning view of the gridiron.
The stadium concession stands, empty of food and beverages, are being used to store the Moderna vaccine. The freezers that normally sit behind the bar are cold enough to safely store the drug, and nurses prepare the shots on-site.
I thought special freezers were needed.
WTF?
Vaccinations began Thursday at the stadium for staff. Next week, first responders must show proof of their employment, with a badge or identification card, to ensure they’re eligible to receive a shot.
They can all have mine.
CIC Health, a Cambridge technology company with a focus on COVID-19 testing, is running the site. The company was formed about six months ago as a subsidiary of the Cambridge Innovation Center, which operates co-working spaces.
Next week, it aims to vaccinate 500 people a day, and hopes to double that total each successive week. The site is open five days a week, but Rachel Wilson, the company’s chief operating officer, said she hopes it will eventually be open every day. Wilson said the company tried at least five different layouts at Gillette to maximize social distancing and has launched an online scheduling platform on its website.
The group plans to open additional large-scale sites in the coming weeks, she said.
You can shove your goddamn f**king poison!
The company hopes to avoid lines during the vaccination process, something chief marketing and experience officer Rodrigo Martinez says it has been able to do with its coronavirus testing sites. Since the company began testing in August, it has administered more than 650,000 across New England, he said.
“Having a platform that allows us to schedule appointments, control the flow of people, and offer a good experience ... it makes sense health-wise,” he said.
Honestly, folks, this has become absolutely sickening and disgusting to read.
CIC estimates that people will spend 45 minutes to 1 hour at the site, depending on how long they need to be monitored after receiving a shot.
Fallon Ambulance, a longtime medical service provider at Gillette, will prepare and administer the vaccines. Mass General Brigham will provide “medical oversight.” Event management company DMSE Sports will offer onsite operations and logistics management, and the clinician network PWN Health will provide customer support.
Gillette is providing parking spaces, and stadium staff will help manage the flow of people entering and exiting the stadium.
On Thursday, the stadium tweeted out a video heralding a “major moment in Foxboro as the first vaccines arrived on-site.”
Once someone receives a vaccine at the site, they will be directed to sit in a 15-minute observation area, where medical staff can assist with any adverse symptoms. Those who know they may be susceptible to a reaction are automatically taken to a 30-minute observation area.
After that, you are on your own.
During that waiting period, patients are asked to use their phone to book their next vaccination appointment on CIC’s website to complete the two-dose cycle.
At first, Gillette will offer the vaccine from Cambridge-based Moderna, but Martinez said the state asked that CIC also be prepared to distribute the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which requires colder storage temperatures.
Part of CIC’s mission, Martinez said, is to encourage Massachusetts residents to get vaccinated. That’s why CIC is encouraging people to take pictures after they receive their shot and share them online. Those getting vaccinated can visit the outdoor seating area and can take photos with the field in the background.
I want to VOMIT!
The state has embarked on a phased vaccination schedule that began with front-line health care workers and people living in long-term care facilities. On Monday, it began to vaccinate first responders at 119 sites around the state. People in congregate care, including shelters and prisons, will begin receiving doses next week.
“Gillette Stadium is accustomed to accommodating large audiences and we are honored to provide a safe location to expedite the vaccination of first responders, and to soon expand to residents throughout the Commonwealth,” said Jim Nolan, the stadium’s chief operating officer, in a statement.
I'm so glad Bo$ton $ports teams sucked this year.
God plays in those games, you know, and where is that QB they let go now?
The Boston Red Sox are also working with state officials on making Fenway Park a mass vaccination site. Governor Charlie Baker said Friday that he expected four or five mass vaccination sites to be open by the end of the month.
Mass vaccination sites are being used elsewhere around the country, including in Chicago, New York, and Washington state. Hopes of a major increase in vaccinations were raised this week when the Trump administration said it would be releasing doses held in reserve, but The Washington Post reported Friday that no such reserve existed.
I already miss Trump, and so will everyone else soon.
I gue$$ it's a gamble either way:
"Patriots join the call for legal sports betting in Mass.; The team is listed in a letter to lawmakers released by Boston-based DraftKings" by Andy Rosen Globe Staff, November 20, 2020
The New England Patriots have thrown their support behind an effort to legalize sports betting in Massachusetts, according to a letter from gambling and athletics industry interests pushing Beacon Hill to go forward on the matter before the ongoing legislative session expires.
The Patriots are included among the signatories on a letter released by the Boston-based sports betting company DraftKings. The letter, urging lawmakers to move quickly on an issue that has been in limbo for more than two years, also includes the Boston Red Sox and the management of the MGM Springfield casino.
“Passing sports betting will protect and create jobs here in Massachusetts at a time when many companies have been forced to shrink their workforce. Massachusetts has already lost jobs that could have been housed here by not acting sooner on sports betting,” the letter writers said. It also lists the New England Revolution, the PGA Tour, and the sports betting firm FanDuel as supporters.
The inclusion of the sports organizations in the letter continues a shift that has played out in recent years. Leagues and teams generally opposed sports betting legalization until recently, but are increasingly viewing it as a compelling method of fan engagement — and potential new revenue, depending on how state law distributes the proceeds.
The Patriots did not immediately offer any additional comment. Many of the other organizations included in the letter, including the Red Sox, have previously advocated together for legalization. (Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry is publisher of the Globe.) The Revolution are also a new addition.
At least 25 other states have legalized sports betting, an industry that has exploded since a 2018 US Supreme Court decision allowed the practice to expand broadly beyond Nevada. In Massachusetts, however, lawmakers have not been able to agree on whether to move forward.
Governor Charlie Baker has proposed a bill to allow licensed operators to offer sports betting online and at the state’s three casinos. Another measure passed the House recently as part of a broad economic development package.
Leaders in the House and Senate are now negotiating on whether to adopt it as part of a final proposal that would be sent to Baker’s desk.
Separately, the Senate on Wednesday decided not to include sports betting in its budget plan for the year.
Opponents of the bill argue that there is not a strong case for gambling expansion in Massachusetts, which they believe could increase the threat of problem gambling. Supporters say offshore online gambling is easily accessible here anyway, and that legalization could bring that business into a regulated market that would generate much-needed tax revenue. Various proposals for sports betting have been projected to bring in between $20 million to $35 million annually.
Senate President Karen Spilka this week declined to say whether sports betting was likely to come up again before the legislative session ends in early January. She told State House News Service that she was focused on matters that include the state budget and the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the letter, the industry groups said they hope to see sports betting in the final economic development bill, rather than waiting until the Legislature’s next session — which could delay it by months or years.
”We are deeply concerned at the prospect of legislation not being passed this session,” the letter said. “Such an outcome would be detrimental to our businesses, to consumers, and to our Commonwealth, all while providing a major win for illegal, offshore sports betting companies.”
Among the issues that will have to be worked out in a final bill are questions over whether sports teams, leagues, and players get a cut of the proceeds, whether it will be legal to wager on college games — something local schools oppose — and who will be eligible to apply for licenses to run sports books in Massachusetts.
In a separate letter sent to legislators recently, the state’s two other casinos, Encore Boston Harbor in Everett and Plainridge Park in Plainville, said most online gambling licenses should be controlled by existing casinos, because they have already made significant investment in the state. They did say that an online operator headquartered here (which would describe DraftKings) should be able to get its own license.
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"In the end, there’s something for almost everyone in the Legislature’s nearly $630 million economic development package, enacted after midnight on Wednesday morning while most of us were sleeping. The sprawling economic development bill, assembled in the final moments of the two-year legislative session, could go a long way toward stimulating the state’s pandemic-stricken economy, and then there are all the bond authorizations, $627 million worth, to allow Baker and any successor to borrow money over five years for a variety of economic programs, many of them brand new. Not everyone got what they wanted, of course. The House’s proposal to legalize sports betting did not survive the House-Senate negotiations. Its fate was not surprising, but the resolution is still bound to disappoint the casino operators and the pro sports teams that lobbied for it — as well as fantasy sports giant DraftKings, which remains shut out of the sports-wagering game in its home state....."
Here’s a rundown of prominent items that did make it into the final legislation, now headed to Baker for his signature.
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At the bottom of it all:
Linda Pizzuti Henry is the first woman to run the Globe in its nearly 150-year history (Jon Super/Associated Press)
"Linda Pizzuti Henry named chief executive of Boston Globe Media Partners" by Larry Edelman Globe Staff, November 18, 2020
Linda Pizzuti Henry has been named chief executive officer of Boston Globe Media Partners, taking the reins after a seven-year run as managing director during which she helped accelerate the news organization’s transformation into a digital media company.
No wonder their printed copy is such $hit.
Henry joined the company when she and her husband, Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry, bought the Globe in 2013. She is the first woman to run the Globe in its nearly 150-year history.
“When I walked into the old Morrissey Boulevard building with John on our first day over seven years ago, past the hum of the presses and the welcoming smell of ink, I wasn’t sure exactly what my role would be,” Henry, 42, said Wednesday during a virtual company meeting, “but I knew that I was lucky to work here, and it was clear to me why this institution needed to not only survive the secular decline of trusted local journalism, but also needed to innovate and evolve and invest in a new way of doing things in order to thrive and effectively serve our mission.”
Henry quickly immersed herself in the news business and the region’s civic life, taking on the role of convener, especially among women in business, the arts, and nonprofits. In addition to the print and online editions of the Globe, the company’s businesses are Boston.com, STAT, the online life sciences news site, and Globe Direct, a direct mail marketing company.
Henry ramped up the Globe’s events business; guided the market repositioning of Boston.com; helped STAT build communities and celebrate up-and-coming scientists; pushed to strengthen and diversify the company’s leadership team; and championed newsroom expansion, including a team of Globe journalists covering Rhode Island.
She also cofounded HubWeek, a creativity and innovation festival at which she has interviewed newsmakers including Warren Buffett and Michael Bloomberg, and created the GlobeDocs documentary film festival.
“Her commitment to civic dialogue, to developing initiatives that both include and elevate us all is both refreshing and needed,” said Anne Finucane, vice chair of Bank of America.
Since joining Boston Globe Media, “Linda has led with intelligence and intention. . . . Her appointment is not only an important day for the paper but enhances her role as a driving force in Boston’s business community,” said Micho Spring, a top executive at PR firm Weber Shandwick and board chair of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Henry noted the progress Boston Globe Media has made in recent years: putting itself on a much stronger financial footing, growing digital subscriptions, and expanding into new media markets. She added that the company, as well as the entire industry, faces significant challenges, including the near-monopoly on digital advertising held by Google and Facebook and readers seeing less urgency in news in the future.
“We have to continue to add new beats, build new revenue streams, and be able to meet our readers on their terms,” Henry said in a companywide e-mail.
This is becoming a $ickening article as this guys fawns over his bo$$.
Boston Globe Media has been locked in tough contract negotiations for nearly two years with the Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents about 300 journalists, advertising sales staff, and other employees. The Guild on Wednesday criticized the company for using lawyers from Jones Day “in its ongoing quest to strip away basic workplace protections from Globe journalists.”
Like I give a $hit about the atrocious reporters who write this garbage!
So NO DEAL YET, despite the LOUD PROTEST?
Jones Day has drawn fire from Democrats and some of the firm’s employees for its representation of President Trump and for representing the Pennsylvania Republican Party in lawsuits filed before the presidential election. The state GOP has asked the US Supreme Court to review a Pennsylvania Supreme Court order extending the statutory deadline to return mail-in ballots established by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The party argues the ruling was unconstitutional.
“We have been making progress,” Henry said of the contract talks. “I have full confidence that the teams will come together to finalize a new contract in the near future.”
According to the reporters, she is trying to break their union and beyond that, you have to love the full on stank of hypocrisy regarding the law firm.
Shouldn't they be $hunned and boycotted?
Henry, who grew up in Lynnfield, earned her bachelor’s degree at Babson College and a master’s in real estate development at MIT. She has worked in real estate banking and for her family’s property development business, in philanthropy, and at sports cable network NESN. She expects to complete another master’s degree next year at the Harvard Kennedy School.
“She is interested in everything and everybody, which is what a real newspaper needs,” said Abigail Johnson, chair and CEO of Fidelity Investments.
In other words, a busybody!
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"Fund giants including Vanguard Group and Fidelity Investments have been given low ratings by research firm Morningstar in its first in-depth assessment on incorporating environmental, social, and governance factors into investment decisions. The research firm rated 40 asset managers around the world and found that more than a quarter of those do not integrate ESG at all or do so in a very limited way, according to a report on Tuesday. Fidelity Investments was also given a low rating for not actively engaging with firms by writing letters or sponsoring shareholder resolutions, while its standards for environmental and social issues were too vague, Morningstar said....."
The hypocri$y is also never-ending.
Henry announced a series of executive promotions Wednesday.....
With resulting increase in pay, right?
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It's called cutting your losses as the memories fade into history and become little more than a footnote brief.
I'm speaking of the World Series, Game 6, something that had to add insult to injury over at the Globe, HA!
Meanwhile, over at the old ball field:
"A body found behind a baseball field in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday morning has been identified as a 69-year-old woman, officials said. Shortly after 7:30 a.m., officers responded to a report of a body found at the Youngsville Baseball Complex near the parking lot for the Rockingham Recreational Rail Trail, according to a joint statement from New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald and Manchester Police Chief Allen D. Aldenberg. The cause of death for the woman, later identified as Cynthia Halloran of Manchester, is pending further investigation and test results, officials said. New Hampshire chief medical examiner Dr. Jennie V. Duval performed an autopsy on the body Thursday morning. Manchester police are investigating the death and tracing Halloran’s location between 5:30 and 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, officials said. Benjamin J. Agati, senior assistant attorney general, confirmed that Halloran’s body was not behind the field overnight. “The investigation is really focused on where she was during that two-hour period,” Agati said. Those with information are asked to contact Manchester police detectives....."
Another woman was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after she was found suffering from burns on Mattakeeset Street in Mattapan early Thursday morning, authorities said.
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The cable sports station took advantage of the extended downtime between the end of the Red Sox season and the start of Bruins games by accelerating plans to renovate its Studio A for the start of hockey season on Thursday.
Of course, Bruins fans might not like the fact that the NHL season has been shortened to just four months because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there’s at least one positive outcome: a revamped studio for pre- and post-game shows at New England Sports Network’s headquarters in Watertown, built in time for the new season. Viewers will notice a much more modern look in the 2,500-square-foot Studio A, with six LED screens, and lit borders that can change color depending on the season — black and gold for hockey, red for baseball. NESN is owned by Fenway Sports Group, the parent company of the Red Sox, and Bruins owners Delaware North. (John Henry, principal owner of the Sox, also owns The Boston Globe)....."
$omeone $cored some loot, huh?
Interstate youth hockey competitions will remain prohibited in New England and New Jersey until at least April 1, the region’s governors said Friday.
Youth hockey has been on ice all year even as the colleges and pros play in empty arenas and football is due to start up.
As for the other winter $port, I couldn't care less about the Celtics-Lakers game -- although I do miss the music but not the insulting woeness of political correctness.
As for where the Red Sox stand with their roster right now, that is in the capable hands of Chaim Bloom and he knows hat has to happen for the Red Sox to be good this year:
She joins the Red Sox from Carroll University in Wisconsin, has MLB experience with two teams and in the league office, and will be the first Black woman to coach in pro baseball history, working mainly with minor league position players.
They are going to try and do it by the numbers in 2021 after all the losses in 2020.
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