The Red Sox hope to ramp up the availability of alcohol at games and other Fenway Park events.
The team wants to hike the number of concession stands selling liquor and extend sales until the end of the seventh inning. That would include adding liquor sales outside on Yawkey Way — in addition to the already-offered beer and wine — and expanding sales of all three to Fenway concerts and other events.
The request comes less than three months after the Boston Redevelopment Authority inked a controversial $7.3 million deal that lets the team shut down part of Yawkey Way for concessions during games and other city-approved events.
"Within a month, they're finding a way of making more revenue from the deal," said Matthew Cahill, executive director of the Boston Finance Commission, a city watchdog group that's been critical of the deal because there was no public bidding process and the city failed to extract a yearly base payment and revenue-sharing from the Red Sox. "This is why the BRA should have crafted a better-worded document. I certainly hope the police are being brought into this conversation."
Red Sox spokeswoman Zineb Curran said the team wants the same conveniences for all events at Fenway Park. "One improvement we are pursuing is reducing concession lines with enhanced efficiency at existing points of sale in high-traffic areas around the park," she said.
The team is slated to appear before the Licensing Board today to increase the number of concession stands selling liquor from five to eight.
Fenway Park starts selling alcohol when park gates open — usually 90 minutes before game time. Liquor sales stop two hours after a game's start or at the bottom of the seventh inning, whichever is earlier, while beer and wine sales stop 2.5 hours after a game's start or at the end of the seventh, whichever comes first. The team now wants to stop selling all three at the end of the seventh or "earlier, at "management's discretion."
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