Franklin Park Coalition

When Boston was young, after our revolutionary era, the Shawmut Peninsula looked onto a forested hillscape. Nearly everywhere in sight was Roxbury. The hills held a secluded sylvan valley nearby: Franklin Park. Then, as now, Bostonians escaped to nature there.

On July 11, the city of Boston and the National Women’s Soccer League Boston, whose local expansion team is owned by Boston Unity Soccer Partners, will host a community event to usher in the warm weather with various art and music offerings.

After a Suffolk Superior Court judge denied a preliminary injunction against the planned renovation of Franklin Park’s White Stadium, Boston Unity Soccer Partners and its development partners are ready to forge ahead with the project.

More than half of residents generally support the City of Boston’s proposal to renovate White Stadium, a survey released last week found.