Fenway–Kenmore

It was designed as a luxury hotel from the city's growing population of affluent citizens and wealthy tourists.

It was right at the end after Massachusetts Ave as you go up the Fenway.

So it was right at the end, if you will, of Back Bay.

The building's architect, J. Pickering Putnam, who also financed the project, pulled out all the stops to build it with beautiful Romanesque revival structured architecture, conical towers, gables, and over 30 initial apartments.

In Boston? Wow.

Yeah, across from Fenway.

They're a Boston band, right? Yeah.

So Noon and I grew up

I don't know.

It's projected to become the world's largest QTPOC-owned theater space located in Boston's Fenway neighborhood.

So thank you, Maura, for that.

That'll appeal to all of us.

But now we're realizing, first of all, the creative economy here in Massachusetts brings in billions of dollars a year.

We're right in the Fenway, the foundation and the school.

That's one of the music meccas and performance meccas that we have here in Boston and in Massachusetts.

And this, these artists, they get the kind of skills that employers are really looking for.

Actor, painter, musician.

Uh, I really like Bruno Mars.

I actually saw him at MGM Music Hall at Fenway, and I got tickets even when I...

In between, I worked for the foundation, then I went to another organization, and then came back recently, and, uh, Danella, our president and CEO, gave me tickets to Bruno Mars, and he was...

you want to put the body in the marsh? Let's marsh that body.

Police have confirmed that the body of the man found dead in the Fenway marshes yesterday afternoon is that of Timothy Delahunt, an undercover policeman for the city of Boston.

This was the scene yesterday.

I insist that we kind of get into it.

Have you ever, have you ever played out here?

Yeah, we played out there one year at, uh, what's it, across from Fenway? Like, is it House of Blues?

Yeah.

Yeah.

There are days where I'll get, like, on weekends I'll get 30,000 steps.

Like, I'll, I'll go into Boston for a day, and I'll go out to Fenway and, and go out to Allston Bright, and then I'll walk back.

And people are like, "You walked that whole way?" And I'm like, "Yeah, it was an hour, but it's a nice walk." And you, every single block has its own rhythm and its own sort of teachings and things to teach you from that experience crossing that block.

Um, so yeah.

But he ain't wrong there either, you know?

They did the same thing in Boston around Fenway.

They've built up, you know, there's concert venues and all that stuff now, like up and down Lansdowne Street and all that stuff.

Yeah.

John, thank you so much.

And John, you know what? We have just learned that the Cubs game tomorrow, which is scheduled for Fenway in Boston, actually is going to be moved to Tampa on Sunday because of the big nor'easter storm that's happening on the East Coast.

Get that broom out for the sweep this weekend.

And of course, Ryan Chevrini will have more on that and today's games.