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Red Sox planning to put more restaurants on the roster

BOSTON The Boston Red Sox are making a push into the restaurant business. The 2007 World Series champion plans to open several establishments in and around its home field of Fenway Park in collaboration with operators of independent restaurants in the area, according to a spokesman.

“Details are being finalized and we will have more information and be able to comment later in the fall,” John Blake, vice president of media relations for the team, told Nation’s Restaurant News.

But he confirmed a report in today’s Boston Herald that the team is turning a space behind the centerfield wall into a grill and bar called Bleacher Bar. An architect and development executive for the team also is scouting three street-side sites near the landmark venue, with the places likely to be operated by local restaurateurs, the report indicated.

The Red Sox have already hired a brokerage firm to scout out operators interested in opening restaurants in two of the sites owned by the team. Both are landmarks: The old WBCN building on Boylston Street and the site of the Town Taxi garage.

In addition, team executives have said there is interest in purchasing a parking garage on Lansdowne Street and turning that site into a restaurant as well.

The Red Sox team, itself principally owned by commodities-trading veteran John Henry, is already the landlord of a Boylston Street establishment called Baseball Tavern.

Currently, Philadelphia-based contract feeder Aramark Corp. operates the foodservice inside Fenway Park. The company said it was unfamiliar with the news report and had no further information.

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