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Compromise Mass. budget deal benches stadium for New England Revolution
Summary by Ground News
A compromise deal on a year-end state budget that emerged on Beacon Hill on Thursday has dealt a damaging blow to plans for a new stadium for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. Language that could have cleared the way for a 25,000-seat, soccer-specific stadium along the banks of the Mystic River in Everett was not included in a joint House and Senate conference committee's version of the $2.8 billion spending plan. The language for the stadium, buried deep in the Senate's version bill, would have removed 43.11 acres of land.