For more than 70 years, White Stadium in Franklin Park has been an athletics destination for the Boston Public Schools. But it's slowly deteriorated, and is now in desperate need of repair. That state of affairs prompted the city to team up with the group behind the Boston Unity, a new professional women's soccer team, to share and completely renovate the stadium.
Mayor Michelle Wu says Boston Public School students will still have plenty of access to the stadium, but a group of local activists say the city is effectively trying to privatize a treasured public space — and they've gone to court to try to stop the deal. Adam Reilly is joined by two of the plaintiffs: Louis Elisa, co-founder and former president of the Franklin Park Coalition, and Renee Stacey Welch, a longtime resident of Roxbury and Jamaica Plain.
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