Boston Legacy FC will play its 2027 home season in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Its first match at White Stadium in Franklin Park is now set for 2028. The rules for who can park on Glen Road, Montebello Road, Weld Avenue or Shurland Street on those game nights are being worked out this month, and Jamaica Plain's neighborhood associations have to send their recommendations to the city by November 23, 2026.
So the stadium opening moved back a year, but the parking decisions stayed on their original schedule. The streets around Forest Hills Street and Egleston Square are getting a plan this winter for games more than a year away.
A 2028 Opening and a Winter 2027 Parking Decision
Legacy announced on August 27, 2026 that it will spend 2027 at Centreville Bank Stadium in Pawtucket and move into White Stadium in 2028. The announcement followed the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that cleared the renovation to go ahead. The club says crews are on site six days a week, structural steel is going up in the grandstands, and underground utility work is underway.
The city's White Stadium Game-Day Transportation Planning page was published in October, after the venue announcement. It still lays out a decision process that wraps up long before 2028:
- Community meetings, September 2026. Completed. The Jamaica Plain session was September 24 at the English High School auditorium.
- Resident survey, through October 24, 2026. Now closed.
- Neighborhood association meetings, October and November 2026.
- Neighborhood recommendations, due November 23, 2026.
- Final decisions, Winter 2027. The city and the White Stadium Neighborhood Advisory Council will announce the plan for the first season.
Most of the input window has already closed. The survey ended October 24. Parkside met October 28 and Egleston Square met November 2. What's left is one Jamaica Plain meeting and the less than three weeks before recommendations are due.
What a Game Night Would Actually Look Like on Your Block
The city has proposed two separate programs. Both would apply only on Legacy game days.
The first is resident street parking protection. On eligible streets within a 0.75-mile zone around the stadium, which the city describes as roughly a 15-minute walk, parking would be limited to residents and their visitors. According to the Jamaica Plain Gazette's October 23 report, the permit model is one permit for each vehicle registered at an address in the zone, plus two guest passes per residential unit.
The second covers Franklin Park itself. It would hold park parking for zoo visitors, golfers, event permit holders and casual park users rather than game spectators. The survey also asked how long casual users should be allowed to park.
The time window is narrow. The restrictions would run for about five hours, from two hours before kickoff to one hour after the final whistle, on about 20 game days a year. The Gazette breaks that down as 16 regular-season games and up to four more if the team makes the playoffs, running March through October. No more than two weekend games can fall in any four-weekend stretch, and most games would be evenings, so restrictions would usually start around 5 or 6 p.m. In practice, a Glenside Avenue household would deal with resident-only parking on roughly 20 game days spread across eight months, most of them evenings.
The proposal on the table is also smaller than the first version. An April 2025 city transportation update described a much bigger permit area and a single visitor placard.
| April 2025 draft | October 2026 proposal | |
|---|---|---|
| Permit zone | 1.5-mile walkshed | 0.75-mile zone, about a 15-minute walk |
| Visitor allowance | One visitor placard | Two guest passes per residential unit |
| Status | Superseded | Under discussion, decision Winter 2027 |
The 2025 draft also floated limiting Walnut Avenue to local traffic on game days. The city's May 2026 transportation agreement update and its October parking page don't mention that idea, so for now it's an old proposal, not a current plan.
The Jamaica Plain Streets on the Map
The city's list of streets in the 0.75-mile zone splits the Jamaica Plain streets among three neighborhood associations. Each association collects feedback from its streets and sends a recommendation to the city.
- Parkside Neighborhood Association, 27 streets: Ackley Place, Brookside Avenue, Cornwall Street, Forest Hills Street, Glade Avenue, Glen Lane, Glen Road, Glenview Avenue, Glenside Avenue, Greenley Place, Haverford Street, Iffley Road, Lourdes Avenue, Marmion Street, Montebello Road, Olmstead Street, Ophir Street, Park Lane, Peter Parley Road, Robeson Street, Rocky Nook Terrace, Rowen Court, Sigourney Street, Sylvia Street, Union Avenue, Walnut Avenue and Woodside Avenue.
- Egleston Square Neighborhood Association, 32 streets: including Atherton Street, Arcadia Street, Bancroft Street, Beethoven Street, Boylston Street, Bragdon Street, Dimock Street, Egleston Street, Ennis Road, Glines Avenue, Granada Park, School Street, Walnut Park, Wardman Road, Weld Avenue, the Westminster Avenue, Court and Terrace cluster, and stretches of Washington Street and Columbus Avenue.
- Stonybrook Neighborhood Association, 3 streets: Kenton Road, Rockvale Circle and Shurland Street.
That comes to about 60 Jamaica Plain street names. Sumner Hill and Woodbourne streets aren't on the list. If you live just outside the zone and think your street should be in it, the city asks you to email its White Stadium team at [email protected] or contact Zavia Dickerson, the Jamaica Plain neighborhood liaison.
Groups like these usually spend their time on small, block-by-block business. Until November 23, they're the main way residents' views reach the city on this decision.
The Street Permits Back Up a Plan Meant to Keep Fans' Cars Away
The resident-only zone works as a backstop. The main idea in the city's plan is that game traffic shouldn't involve parked fan cars at all. The May 11, 2026 city update on the transportation access plan agreement says Legacy spectators won't be allowed to park in Franklin Park or on neighborhood streets.
Here's what the signed framework puts in place:
- Free shuttles from Forest Hills, Ruggles and JFK/UMass, plus shuttles from satellite parking lots outside Boston, with Legacy paying for the transportation plan.
- Fans choosing how they'll travel when they buy tickets.
- A game-day shuttle fleet targeted to be fully electric within two years.
- Traffic cameras connected to the city's Traffic Management Center.
- A review after the first ten games.
- A Franklin Park parking reservation system for zoo visitors, golfers, youth sports families and other park users.
Some commitments go back further. When the city announced the lease in December 2024, Boston Unity Soccer Partners, the city's partner on the lease, agreed to a new Bluebikes station, secure bike parking, bike valet service and extra game-day parking enforcement that it would pay for.
For Jamaica Plain, the Forest Hills shuttle matters most. The neighborhood's Orange Line terminus is one of the three shuttle hubs, and the street permits are meant to make sure any fans who skip the shuttle and look for a curb spot near Glen Road or Peter Parley Road don't find one. The planned review after ten games also means the first-season rules decided this winter are expected to change once the city sees real game nights.
Where It Stands the Week This Posts
Stonybrook is the only Jamaica Plain association with a meeting still ahead. It meets on Zoom on Monday, November 9, at 6 p.m., and the link and contact email, [email protected], are on the city's planning page. According to the Gazette, Parkside and Egleston Square agreed to gather and reflect feedback from anyone in the designated area. If you missed their meetings, you can still reach them through the contacts listed on the city page before recommendations go in.
Some things are still unsettled. The city hasn't published a permit application process, an implementation date or a final list of game-day street closures. Legacy's August announcement confirmed the 2028 move without naming an opening date or a match schedule. Recommendations are due November 23, 2026, and the city and the advisory council expect to announce the first-season parking plan in Winter 2027.
If you own on Montebello Road or Weld Avenue, or you're thinking about a home somewhere in that 0.75-mile zone, game-day parking may come up when you price a place or weigh what a buyer will ask about. We follow plans like this one street by street. At Juan Real Estate Group, we're happy to walk through what's decided and what's still open for your block. Let's connect. Book a free valuation or consultation.
