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All involved parties wrangled for several years on the details of the new stadium.

One plan even involved building a " Sports Megaplex " in South Boston, where a new Fenway would be located next to a new stadium for the New England Patriots.

The Patriots ultimately built Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, their home throughout most of their history, and that plan was abandoned.

Even after several more rounds of deliberations, the Red Sox could not reach an agreement with the city of Boston for a new stadium.

In 2005, the Red Sox ownership group announced that the team would stay at Fenway Park indefinitely.

After finishing 10 years of improvements to Fenway, spending $ 285 million to renovate, improve, rebuild the ballpark, in 2011 team president Larry Lucchino stated in an interview that all renovations are complete.

At the same time, he said that engineers have told the team that the structure has 40 – 50 years of life remaining and that " there is nothing in the plans ( for a new ballpark )".