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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu beat back a community lawsuit and criticism over a ballooning price tag to ram through a $325 million rebuild of White Stadium so she certainly wasn’t going to let a little lightning derail her celebration.
A little over half an hour into a press conference the city and Boston Legacy FC held Friday to celebrate a “major construction milestone” that advances the public-private plan to house the pro women’s soccer team at the rebuilt stadium, Wu got word from a construction worker that conditions had turned dangerous.
“We are told for weather and lightning purposes, we have very limited time left,” Wu said after the soccer team’s controlling owner Jennifer Epstein spoke. “I’m going to stretch a teeny bit.
“I’d ask all of our remaining speakers to come up together, and maybe everyone could give an abbreviated version as we’re being asked to kind of clear the site,” the mayor said, before allowing six others to speak for another 12 minutes.
The weather conditions were seemingly a walk in Franklin Park for Wu, who has encountered fierce resistance from parts of the community since her plan to rehab White Stadium for a pro soccer team...