When fans arrive at TD Garden Monday for the Boston Bruins’ preseason home opener, they’ll be greeted by the biggest makeover in the arena’s 23-year history.
The $100 million expansion project brings new concessions, bars and restaurants, a higher-definition scoreboard and an all-black arena seating scheme. Star Market also opens its largest Boston supermarket at The Hub on Causeway mixed-use development >on Friday.
The development partnership with Boston Properties enabled arena owner Delaware North Cos. to expand the Garden by 50,000 square feet for new fan amenities, and add 500 parking spots to the underground North Station garage.
The yellow original arena seating has been replaced by all-black ergonomic seating and video screens are upgraded with higher-definition 4K technology.
The membership-only Boston Garden Society club section that opened last year has expanded its Cross Insurance Boardroom, which includes two bars with food service and dedicated elevators from the parking garage.
Photo courtesy of Delaware North Cos.
And more new fan areas are scheduled to open in November: the members-only Rafters party deck on the arena’s top level includes 400 seats cantilevered over the arena bowl; the Rafter studios club level seats groups from 20 to 200; a 102-foot-long Back Row bar on level eight; and the two-story 1928, Club spanning 7,500 square feet on parts of levels five and six. Two concourses have been expanded with additional concessions and communal seating.
More dining options will become available at the Hub Hall, the 16,000-square-foot food hall component of The Hub on Causeway scheduled to open this winter.
Delaware North subsidiary Patina Restaurant Group announced this week that Mike’s Pastry, Castle Island mainstay Sullivan’s and North End sandwich shop Monica’s Mercato are the first three of 18 planned vendors.
The 1.8 million-square-foot Hub on Causeway includes a citizenM boutique hotel that opened in August, office podium building containing Rapid7’s new headquarters, a 440-unit HubHouse50 apartment tower scheduled to open in October and a 651,000-square-foot office tower under construction that will be anchored by Verizon’s East Coast innovation center.
