Franklin Park - White Stadium Renovation

themissinglink said:
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Demolition underway at White Stadium, as residents remain split over renovation plans - The Boston Globe

Tree removal and dismantling of the East Grandstand began last week. The trial over a lawsuit aiming to stop the demolition is set to start in one month.
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"as residents remain split"
“This is wrong, my neighbors and I are fighting, my community is divided, and we have people who can stop this, but they won’t listen to us,”

It's almost as if they think there will be some sort of unanimous opinion on this if they have a couple more meetings. It's pretty clear (to me at least) that a majority of folks support the project as planned.
 
It is all fake news. Same thing with the bus lanes. The editor of the Dorchester Reporter enthusiastically supports it, and while some clearly disagree, that is not a particularly controversial stance among the 150,000 people south and east of the park. There is debate not controversy
 
Once again Dot News has the best coverage. It's refreshing, they quote the head of the Boston YMCA, not the consensus on social media

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White Stadium plan supporters say foes overstate the level of opposition | Dorchester Reporter

Frustrated supporters of the city’s ongoing project to renovate White Stadium made it clear on Monday that opponents, including a non-profit organization that is leading a lawsuit that seeks to block the rehab plan, do not speak for them and many other people in the neighborhoods around Franklin...
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A new Emerson Boston Mayoral Poll was just released and included info on support for White Stadium renovations. 53% support, 22% oppose, and 26% are unsure. Further evidence that this is broadly popular but opposed by a vocal minority.
 
This is a huge win for the city because it narrows the scope of the trial and limits the allowable evidence:

“The White Fund was established for the benefit of the general public, and the Plaintiffs do not have individual interests in the White Fund distinct from that of the general public,” {Judge Matthew} Nestor wrote.

In another blow to the plaintiffs, Nestor ruled against allowing evidence that would challenge how the city handled the project’s request-for-proposals process.

Now, the trial will be limited to the question of whether or not the project violates Article 97, a state law that requires legislative approval and state review before the use of a public park and recreation land is changed.

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City, soccer team get a big break heading into White Stadium trial

On the even of the trial, a judge ruled that the case will be narrower in scope than the project's opponents had hoped.
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Def better than bos nation fc..

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New name for soccer club: Boston Legacy | Dorchester Reporter

When National Women's Soccer League’s Boston club managers announced that they would be undergoing a name change last week, fans enjoying beers and BBQ at the 2025 season launch party were excited to say ‘bye bye’ to Bos Nation. This morning, perhaps this time over coffee and croissants, those...
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KCasiglio said:
Don't understand why they have to over committee it so much. Get a bunch of kids together to spitball something that sounds cool. Great contrast between the very corporate sounding Boston Legacy and the seemingly sudden appearance of the Boston Ball Hogs
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I think this is true of many things today. Look at the entire development process. Over-committee’d and under delivering. I had a meme I posted where back in the day planners just laid down a grid with a town square and said build what you want compared to today where you have environmental reviews, comment periods, unlimited neighbor veto’s, development reviews… and on and on and you still end up with disjointed horrible street networks and mid architecture. We need to get back to doing and building things and move away from so much design by committee where no body ends up happy in the end.
 
I don't like the name Legacy because it is always about ancient history or some mythic past that the generation before me is obsessed with. For those of us who grew up in shitty, dangerous Boston, these are the good old days in every way, and I wish the team's name could reflect that.
 
Scott said:
I don't like the name Legacy because it is always about ancient history or some mythic past that the generation before me is obsessed with. For those of us who grew up in shitty, dangerous Boston, these are the good old days in every way, and I wish the team's name could reflect that.
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"Shitty, dangerous Boston" was also a space much more conducive to creative, artistic evolution, much like "shitty, dangerous LES" in NYC was an incubator for now-legendary visual artists and musical icons. There were also way more non-chain, independent retailers, restaurants, galleries, etc.

Oh, and actual non-millionaire humans could exist comfortably in the city back in the days of "shitty, dangerous Boston."

Boston's cleaner, safer, shinier now -- and I still love it -- but dismissing the MANY upsides of "the way things used to be" is ignorant.
 
HenryAlan said:
I am probably just going to call them Boston FC until some more organic nickname develops out of the fan base.
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Within a few years I suspect that nickname will be "That women's soccer team that played here for a couple years before folding and leaving the city to foot the bill for the stadium."
 
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chrisbrat said:
Boston's cleaner, safer, shinier now -- and I still love it -- but dismissing the MANY upsides of "the way things used to be" is ignorant.
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I've lived in Boston for 35+ years, and never felt unsafe in the vast majority of the city. It definitely was grittier in the past, but as you point out, that's not always a bad thing. I welcome the transition from reasonably safe to the current state of extremely safe, but I don't think we needed to lose some of the features that once co-existed with the higher (but still not super high) homicide rates that once existed here. And it's definitely a shame that the city has become so unaffordable to many who used to be what part of kept Boston great.
 
HenryAlan said:
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I've lived in Boston for 35+ years, and never felt unsafe in the vast majority of the city. It definitely was grittier in the past, but as you point out, that's not always a bad thing. I welcome the transition from reasonably safe to the current state of extremely safe, but I don't think we needed to lose some of the features that once co-existed with the higher (but still not super high) homicide rates that once existed here. And it's definitely a shame that the city has become so unaffordable to many who used to be what part of kept Boston great.
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I've lived in Boston for longer than that. And for all of our contemporary problems- housing/affordability, public education, aging transit infrastructure etc.- the city is incomparably better than it was when I moved here in 1980. Incomparably.
 
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