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By adamg - 3/22/24 - 5:58 pm
A Suffolk Superior Court judge ruled today that the proposed $80-million renovation of White Stadium to support a professional women's soccer team would actually expand public access both to the stadium and nearby park areas and gave the city and the nascent soccer team permission to continue. Read more.
By adamg - 3/14/24 - 2:46 pm
A career criminal was sentenced to 15 to 18 years in prison for a 2022 chase that ended with him shooting at cops, missing, running away, aiming the gun at other cops, then getting shot himself, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/21/24 - 1:33 pm
Citing the potential for "irreparable harm" to Franklin Park, the Emerald Necklace Conservancy yesterday sued Boston, a city trust fund and the group seeking to bring women's professional soccer to Franklin Park over plans for an $80-million rebuilding and expansion of White Stadium. Read more.
By adamg - 12/24/23 - 12:25 pm
TheBostonLOL forwards this photo of a tiny tree in Franklin Park that somebody wrapped with a blue tree skirt and decorated with a single red ornament, just like Charlie Brown would do.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 10:46 am
Rendering by Stantec. See it larger.
The group working to bring professional women's soccer to Boston yesterday filed detailed plans for its part of the overhaul of the decaying, fire-ravaged White Stadium in Franklin Park, which includes a new soccer pitch, replacement of bleachers with individual seats, a separate dining area including room for food trucks, a year-round restaurant and a beer garden and overhanging shade over the seats designed as an homage to the surrounding greenery. Read more.
By adamg - 12/1/23 - 9:42 am
The group working to bring a women's professional soccer team to Boston will soon file detailed renovation plans for turning the dilapidated White Stadium into a state-of-the-art soccer arena to be shared with Boston Public Schools and the general public - to be opened in time for the start of the 2026 National Women's Soccer League season. Read more.
By adamg - 10/26/23 - 9:28 am
The Bay State Banner reports, says some people are getting tired of stuff getting dumped in Franklin Park; city says the new animal shelter would be in an area already used for park maintenance vehicles.
By adamg - 9/27/23 - 9:09 pm
Routes from areas where the team might seek to set up parking. The numbers refer to total van rides, not the number of vans in use.
The team that won a professional women's soccer franchise for Boston tonight sketched out a preliminary transportation plan for roughly 20 home games a year at a renovated White Stadium in Franklin Park that could include shuttle vans from for-fee parking areas in more remote areas in places, possibly as far away as areas near Rte. 128, I-93 near the Neponset and north of Jackson Square. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/23 - 9:58 pm
WCVB reports Boston will get a team in the National Women’s Soccer League, set to kick off in 2026 in White Stadium in Franklin Park, which the team plans to spend big bucks on to renovate.
By adamg - 9/15/23 - 8:34 pm
If nothing else, the clouds heralding Lee gave us an amazing sunset tonight, as Tim Babatz couldn't help but notice at Fan Pier on the harbor.
Up the harbor a bit, Adam Balsam got a good view in the North End: Read more.
By adamg - 8/19/23 - 8:40 pm
Possible weasel of Caerbannog, with a vicious streak a mile wide, on a Franklin Park path.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a white weasel with no fear on the Forest Hills Street side of Franklin Park this evening: Read more.
By adamg - 8/14/23 - 8:53 am
The state, which owns the current Shattuck Hospital off Morton Street and Boston Medical Center are holding a Zoomed meeting on Tuesday to discuss their plans to replace the current hospital with new buildings with up to 405 apartments and new beds and clinical services for people with substance-abuse issues and the homeless, including families. Read more.
By adamg - 7/1/23 - 8:52 am
The Bay State Banner reports residents living near the southern end of Franklin Park are less than thrilled with plans by the state and non-profit groups to transform the hospital grounds with 405 units of supportive housing for formerly homeless people, 326 beds for people being treated for substance abuse and 120 emergency shelter beds.
By adamg - 12/28/22 - 11:06 am
James Hills and Michelle Wu discussing city issues this morning.
A group of women investors that includes the Globe's Linda Henry has put in a bid for an expansion slot in the National Women's Soccer League. Read more.
By adamg - 10/18/22 - 12:51 pm
WFXT reports on comments by Jean McGuire on her recent stabbing while walking her dog in Franklin Park.
By adamg - 10/12/22 - 10:45 am
WCVB reports that Jean McGuire, 91, was stabbed several times around 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday as she walked her dog down Playstead Road, near the basketball courts. Read more.
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