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Federal funds could help with McCoy Stadium renovation

Posted 9/6/16

To the Editor: Larry Lucchino is talking about spending 65 million dollars to renovate McCoy Stadium and improve the infrastructure around McCoy Stadium. Rhode Island and Pawtucket should not be asked to provide millions of dollars to renovate McCoy

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Federal funds could help with McCoy Stadium renovation

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To the Editor:

Larry Lucchino is talking about spending 65 million dollars to renovate McCoy Stadium and improve the infrastructure around McCoy Stadium. Rhode Island and Pawtucket should not be asked to provide millions of dollars to renovate McCoy Stadium and improve the infrastructure around McCoy Stadium.

All that Rhode Island and Pawtucket have to do is work with the leaders of the new Blackstone River Valley National Park and make McCoy Stadium a part of this new national park. If this were done, federal transportation funds, federal national park funds and federal earmarks would become available to pay for the lion's share of the cost to renovate McCoy Stadium and to pay the cost to improve the infrastructure around McCoy Stadium. Rhode Island and Pawtucket's share of the McCoy Stadium's renovation cost and the local infrastructure improvement cost would be relative low. McCoy Stadium's outfield walls and bleachers could be made to resemble Fenway Park's outfield walls and bleachers.

The entrance to the national park could be at McCoy Stadium, which is within a few hundred feet of the Providence and Worcester (P&W) rail right-of-way and within a half-mile for Interstate route I-95. This P&W right-of-way could be upgraded to provide mass transit access to McCoy Stadium and the new Blackstone River Valley National Park.

Kenneth Berwick

Smithfield

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