Verrill Legal Team Leads Boston’s Women’s Soccer Team in Development of White Stadium

BOSTON, Mass. – A team of Verrill real estate, permitting, and litigation attorneys, led by Verrill Real Estate Partner Chris Tsouros, just concluded a third major successful milestone in Verrill’s representation of Boston Legacy Football Club LLC in the development of White Stadium in Franklin Park as the home venue for the team’s upcoming debut in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL).

Tsouros and Lauren Galvin led Verrill litigators Stacie Kosinski, Margaret Fitzgerald, and Mary Petronio, in collaboration and joint defense with litigation counsel for the City of Boston, won a significant trial victory in April when Suffolk County Superior Court Justice Matthew Nestor denied after trial all Counts of a Complaint filed against the soccer team and the City of Boston seeking to enjoin and definitively preclude a major $200,000,000 renovation of White Stadium. The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and “ten taxpayers” asserted that Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution precluded any redevelopment of the Stadium without extensive state and legislative processes and approvals. In rejecting all of the Plaintiffs’ claims, that decision triggers the full proposed construction of White Stadium under the team’s partnership with the City of Boston. This decision benefits the Boston Public Schools and the local Roxbury / Mattapan and surrounding communities. It also ensures that the women’s soccer team will play 20 NWSL home games annually at White Stadium over the course of its minimum ten-year lease – the key to securing and launching the new women’s professional sports franchise in Boston in 2026.

The court victory comes on the heels of the successful year long lease negotiations with the City of Boston conducted by Tsouros and fellow Verrill real estate and municipal permitting attorney Clayton Brite on behalf of the soccer team, resulting in an extensive Lease Agreement and Stadium Usage Agreement with the City of Boston and Boston Public Schools. It also caps Verrill’s successful two-year pursuit through RFP and entitlements processes with the City of Boston, the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA), Boston Landmarks Commission, Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and other City agencies, culminating in full municipal entitlements for the soccer team’s construction and development of White Stadium.