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Boston Red Sox, Hotel Owner Pursue Land Swap for Ballpark Project.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2000 by Vaillancourt, Meg

Apr. 5--Just days after Mayor Thomas M. Menino pressed the Boston Red Sox to team up with two Fenway landowners in a new ballpark, the Red Sox are negotiating a land swap with the owner of the Howard Johnson's Hotel on Boylston Street.

Terms of the deal still have to be hammered out with Robert Sage, owner of the hotel. But it appears that Sage may exchange his Boylston Street property for land in the Fenway owned by the team -- possibly on a parcel located in 88-year-old Fenway Park's outfield that is not needed for the new ballpark.

If the team wins its bid to build a new Fenway Park -- and that remains a big if -- Sage is expected to build a new hotel on the land he would acquire from the Red Sox.

Sage will not get a stake in the team and...

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