The singular focus on football seems very odd, there are a lot more student-athletes than just football and they will all have a fantastic facility. Even so, football didn't have that many games in the stadium and in cases like BLS they are being relocated to perfectly fine fields much closer to their campus. Not to mention the strength and conditioning facilities/ offices for all of BPS which many more students and football will benefit from. It was never a joke on the students, it's a massive massive benefit and investment for the students and BPS. Every voice from inside BPS that I have seen, including parents, students, teachers, and coaches have been in support of this project. If you go on these calls you'll see the people against it in general seem to be elderly NIMBY's.
We've already gone over this multiple times earlier in the thread.
Where do you get this idea? There will be somewhere between 20 and 25 days in total out of 365 when it's not available.
But they don't plan to use it at all for that purpose, so again, where are you getting this idea?
... A single practice during the week prior to each home game. That's going to be basically occasisional scheduled field use for a few hours at a time. They're not exactly going to be there all the time.
The only practice time the field will be used for is an hour or two the day before a game. This is for the opposing team to get a feel for the facility. No professional soccer team in the MLS or NWSL practices frequently on the pitch they play, especially if they have a natural grass field. Additionally, the owner has already said that "they are currently evaluating sites to build a training facility in addition to their plan for revitalizing White Stadium." The things that might increase the use of the field in the future is whether the team makes playoffs consistently, if the final is planned to be hosted there (which will probably happen in 2026/2027 and not again for a long time), and how much more the league expands in the next decade or so. So maybe 30-35 days of use 10 years from now, still less than 10% of available time.
You clearly don't understand how professional soccer works, I don't know why you are acting like you do
Oh are we still doing the bad faith "This is bad for BPS students" lie?
This is the slide they've been showing in their presentations. It can be available to BPS every day of the week throughout the year depending on scheduling. The game would take half the day and the one practice session no more than a few hours. The rest of the time there are greatly expanded hours for public access compared to today.
I don't understand why it's being an "internet tough guy" to point out that you're repeating the same debunked talking points you were in February. I wasn't hostile about it and I didn't start calling names, nor will I respond to yours in kind. I called a spade a spade.
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What makes you think you can do anything meaningful for $30 million? Inflation adjusted, the field upgrades at WREC cost over $25 million. Renovating White Stadium would be substantially more expensive than that. The city could end up spending close to $100 million just for that, when you consider required structural improvements, which were not an issue in West Roxbury. Somebody is thinking small, but it's not Mayor Wu.
Ed Flynn is a DINO (Democrat in Name Only)!Not a fan of this guy (imho, he's kind of a dullard), but I feel he's right on this one:
Councilor Ed Flynn calls for city to cancel controversial White Stadium development plan championed by Mayor Wu - The Boston Globe
Flynn cited concern about the growing cost of the project, and some residents' frustration with the community input process, as reasons for the city to cancel its redevelopment plans.
My hope is for:
1) $30-40 million to bring White Stadium up to par for a venue that is 100% for BPS.
2) The new Boston NWSL team plays in Kraft's great location on a bustling/dynamic transformed Mystic River waterfront (Charlestown/Somerville on one bank, Chelsea/Everett on the other) and becomes wildly successful playing in front of 10,000-20,000 fans per game.
3) Don Law and his wife, Sara Molyneaux, coincidentally the Chair of the CLF, quit their obvious attempt at saving his market share on concerts/events by blocking other potential competitor locations
This could be great and transformative. But Wu thinks small and expensive.