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White Stadium in Franklin Park: a school stadium shared with a pro soccer team

White Stadium in Franklin Park: a school stadium shared with a pro soccer team

White Stadium sits in Franklin Park, the large park bordered by Roxbury, Dorchester and Jamaica Plain, and it has long been the home field for Boston Public Schools track and football. The city is rebuilding it with Boston Legacy FC, a new National Women's Soccer League team. When the work is done the team can use the stadium for up to 20 games and 20 practices a year, and the schools and the community have it the rest of the year.

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The cost has grown. The rebuild is now about $325 million, with the team paying about $190 million and the city about $135 million from its capital budget, nearly three times what the city estimated two years earlier. Supporters say students get a modern stadium paid for largely with private money. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and residents of the neighborhoods around the park sued, calling it a private use of public parkland, and neighbors have raised concerns about cost, parking, traffic and rising rents. In August 2026 the state's highest court ruled for the city, and construction continues.

The Council votes on the city's capital budget each June, and it has asked the administration again and again for cost and impact information. Here is every Council vote on the stadium and how each councilor voted.

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4votes on the record on this issue
13members of Boston City Council decide thisWho decides
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The latest recorded vote on this issue, March 25, 2026
Yes3
No9

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Whole board: failed 3 to 9, Mar 25

Latest vote, Mar 25: The council voted 3 to 9 on the keeping the ban on alcohol at school facilities, including the stadium grounds. It failed. The issue is still open.

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