US EditionFight over plan to renovate historic Boston stadium for women's soccer heads to court
- A superior court judge sided with the city in a case about renovating a historic Boston stadium, dismissing half of the plaintiffs' claims.
- Both sides agree that the stadium is in desperate need of a makeover for a professional women's soccer team and Boston public school athletics.
- Taxpayers will fund half the renovation cost of $100 million.
- Opponents, including the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and 20 park neighbors, claim the project privatizes public park space, a claim city leaders dispute.
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Lawsuit over Boston’s White Stadium renovation heads to trial. What to know
The project to renovate a historic stadium in Boston’s Franklin Park for student-athletes and a new professional women’s soccer team faces its biggest hurdle yet this week as a lawsuit attempting to stop the project heads to trial. The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court by the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and a group of individual Boston residents, aims to halt the demolition and redevelopment of White Stadium. The decrepit facility was bu…
Lawsuit challenging deal to renovate Boston’s White Stadium goes to trial Tuesday
BOSTON — The start of a trial in a lawsuit challenging a deal between the city of Boston and Boston Unity Soccer Partners to renovate White Stadium, then lease it for use by a professional women's soccer team, begins this week in Suffolk Superior Court.
Boston’s White Stadium lawsuit goes to trial Tuesday, deciding fate of $200M soccer plan
A lawsuit that seeks to stop the City of Boston’s public-private rehab of Franklin Park’s White Stadium for a new pro women’s soccer team goes to trial Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court, where the fate of the $200 million proposal will be decided. At the trial, plaintiffs, consisting of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and a contingent of 20 park neighbors, will try to prove that the use proposed by Boston Unity Soccer Partners, the for-profit g…
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