MLS team steps up hunt for stadium 30/06/2010 |
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Major League Soccer club New England Revolution has relaunched plans to move to a purpose-built stadium.
The Revolution currently shares Gillette Stadium with NFL club the New England Patriots but is exploring the possibility of relocating to a venue of its own.
Plans for a 20,000-25,000-capacity stadium were first mooted in 2007 and the team will now revisit that proposal.
One of the club’s favoured sites is in Somerville and the official Revolution blog said: “Getting the team into a soccer stadium of its own remains a top priority for our organisation. With the decision regarding the MBTA’s Green Line maintenance facility in Somerville in place, we have relaunched the process of examining that area as a stadium site.
“We were in a holding pattern for a bit while the city and MBTA worked out the details of the facility. During the next few months, our architects and engineers will be studying the area to determine if it is possible to build a soccer stadium on that site given the footprint of the maintenance facility and other existing structures.
“In the last few months, we have also begun studying three additional sites around Boston’s metro core. These sites may not have been available to us in the past, but have recently shown potential interest in having our stadium.
“To date, we have invested more than $1m in exploring new soccer stadium options, in addition to the efforts of multiple people in our organisation, so we’re pressing the issue. We’ve seen the impact that an urban soccer stadium has made and we are committed to creating that environment here in New England.”
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