BOSTON (CBS). Fenway Park is a dynamic baseball cathedral. It will be bursting with new features and areas for the 2022 season.
The Red Sox have announced a series if improvements and updates to America’s oldest ballpark ahead of Friday’s home opener in Boston.
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These changes include the additions to bleachers that were previously seen but now have official names. A new concourse of 8,800 square feet, The Truly Terrace, is located behind sections 39-43 of bleachers. It features standing room areas and barstool seating in the last row of bleachers. There’s also a 360-degree island bars and unique food options.
The new NESN Studio, which is located on the terrace, can also be found behind the bleachers. The studio will be used by NESN for their pregame show, which is held on Jersey Street since years. The Red Sox added the 521 Overlook, a 7,600-square-foot event space above the new concourse. This area can accommodate approximately 600 people and is available to rent for private functions. Named after Ted Williams’s career-high number of home runs and the approximate distance between the space and home plate in feet, the area can accommodate approximately 600 people.
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The bleacher additions bring Fenway Park a new videoboard. It is twice as large as the previous videoboard that was on top of the bleachers.
Red Sox stated that the new videoboard will allow for more game information such as team lineups and batter-walk-up song information.
Two new video boards were also added to the area. They display the line score, in game starting pitcher stats, as well as reliever information when pitchers warm up in the bullpen.
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Fenway Park will now be cashless, with concessions accepting only credit cards and touchless payments via smartphones. Cashless point-of sale devices will be available at all vendors around the ballpark, which will allow purchases to be made with mobile devices or credit cards. At one of the many kiosks around the ballpark, fans with cash can load money onto a Mastercard debit card.
