{"id":249086,"date":"2026-04-14T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:43:10","slug":"white-stadium-construction-is-entering-a-new-phase-heres-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/249086\/","title":{"rendered":"White Stadium construction is entering a new phase. Here’s a look"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Construction<\/a>Construction gets underway at the new White Stadium in Boston’s Franklin Park. (Robin Lubbock\/WBUR)<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR’s daily morning newsletter, WBUR Today. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

It’s going to be unseasonably hot today \u2014 but perhaps appropriate for Ben & Jerry’s annual Free Cone Day<\/a>. Here’s a map of nearby scoop shops<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But first, let’s get to the news:<\/p>\n

The future of Boston\u2019s White Stadium is beginning to take more visible shape. Even as Massachusetts\u2019 top court mulls a lawsuit that could block the project<\/a>, crews have been plowing ahead. The state-of-the-art, 10,000-seat stadium will be home to the new Boston Legacy women\u2019s soccer team<\/a> and Boston Public Schools athletics. And now, the plows are making way for cranes. After more than a year<\/a> of demolition, drainage and foundation work, crews began the so-called \u201cvertical construction\u201d phase last week, building up the concrete superstructure that will serve as the backbone of the new stadium. “We know there’s been a lot of community back and forth and are just excited for people to see their comments and feedback translate into something that’s real,” Diana Fernandez Bibeau, the city’s deputy chief of urban design, told WBUR during a tour of the construction site.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at their progress so far:<\/p>\n

\"Diana<\/a>Diana Fernandez Bibeau, deputy chief of urban design at the Boston Planning Department, looks at a virtual reality image of the finished White Stadium, as she stands in the midst of construction for the stadium’s east grandstand. (Robin Lubbock\/WBUR)<\/p>\n

The plan: The $325 million project (which the Legacy and city are splitting roughly 60\/40<\/a>) is nearly a complete rebuild of the dilapidated stadium.<\/p>\n

\tThe east grandstand (which the city is building) is slated to house new BPS athletic training facilities, expanded locker rooms, coaches’ office space and a multi-purpose event room. On the west side, the Legacy are doing a “facadectomy” on the historic clamshell wall. That side will include Legacy locker rooms, a team store and a press box with broadcasting internships for BPS students. On the south side, there’ll be concessions and a pavilion. The main entrance will remain on the north side, through the stadium’s four original concrete pillars. The project also includes a professional-grade natural grass field, an eight-lane track and public restrooms.<\/p>\n

When will it open? While the Legacy have been planning to move to White Stadium next season, the current project timeline is to \u201cbe ready by the end of summer of 2027,\u201d according to Fernandez Bibeau. (The NWSL regular season runs from March through October.) \u201cOur goal here is to try to get this open for the fall BPS school season in 2027,\u201d she said. A spokesperson for Mayor Michelle Wu\u2019s office subsequently followed up to say they are \u201caiming for 2027 generally.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tA spokesperson for the Legacy \u2014 which is currently playing 2026 home games at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough and Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island \u2014 declined to comment Monday on their 2027 plans.\"Construction<\/a>Construction on the east grandstand. (Robin Lubbock\/WBUR)\"Diana<\/a>Fernandez Bibeau shows the layout for the new White Stadium. (Robin Lubbock\/WBUR)<\/p>\n

What’s next:\u00a0The next step is steel. City officials said they expect to receive initial steel deliveries next week. That will allow crews to start installing the grandstand and other precast layers, according to Fernandez Bibeau. “That’s the next big milestone for us as part of this vertical construction piece,” she said.<\/p>\n

\tRising steel prices and tariffs were one of the reasons Wu cited for the project’s ballooning cost estimates<\/a>. However, the city is now contractually locked into a guaranteed maximum price to protect taxpayers from the impact of any potential additional supply chain disruptions or other delays (for example, if the state’s Supreme Judicial Court overturns previous rulings<\/a> and requires the city to get legislative approval to continue the project). “We feel pretty confident in our position in this moment,” Fernandez Bibeau said. “We also don’t want to slow down our progress. We want to keep going to make sure that, again, we can meet that fall timeline for our students.”\"A<\/a>A bird’s eye view rendering of the completed stadium at night. (Courtesy Boston Legacy FC)<\/p>\n

P.S.\u2014 In other soccer related news, local World Cup organizers confirmed yesterday that Boston’s fan fest at City Hall Plaza will indeed be free to attend. As WBUR’s Andrea Perdomo-Hernandez reports<\/a>, it’s a pleasant surprise amid news that similar events in Los Angeles and New York will charge for admission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction gets underway at the new White Stadium in Boston’s Franklin Park. (Robin Lubbock\/WBUR) Editor’s Note: This is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-249086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}