With World Cup over, New England Revs look ahead to stadium planning in Everett

Now that the FIFA World Cup has finished, New England Revolution president Brian Bilello can turn his focus back to another important project: the Revs’ proposed soccer stadium in Everett.

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The Kraft Group’s stadium would go up at the roughly 20-acre site of a shuttered power plant overlooking the Mystic River, and across the street from the Encore Boston Harbor casino. Kraft officials are expected to host an informal meeting this Thursday at Everett City Hall to discuss a four-acre waterfront park they’ve proposed for the property.

In an interview last week with the Globe, Bilello mused about what bringing the World Cup to Massachusetts — and the thousands of soccer fans who streamed in and out of town as a result — means for the Revs project. The goal is to build a 25,000-seat stadium, with as many as 35,000 for concerts, so the Revs no longer need to share Gillette Stadium with the New England Patriots, the Krafts’ other sports team.

“Maybe this [the World Cup] gets people a little more excited about it,” said Bilello, also a board member with the local FIFA organizing committee, Boston Soccer 2026. “I think people are really starting to understand the real joy that a soccer fan brings to an event.”

However, he noted that the Revs were already seeing “a lot of positive momentum on the stadium.” (He did not address parking and traffic concerns raised by neighbors in Charlestown.)

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Boston-area soccer fans will have to wait a few years before they can take the Orange Line to a Revs game. Not only does the Kraft Group need the stadium to go through a Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act review, a process that started this spring, the old Mystic power plant needs to come down before starting construction on the new stadium. City permits are also required.

“It’s about a three-year total process, from taking down the power plant, and then building the actual stadium,” Bilello said. “From the day we get the OK, it’s about three years. … Now, we’re just doing all the boring stuff we need to do. That’s all progressing really well.”

That puts the most likely opening date for the Revs stadium at sometime in 2030 — maybe just in time for the 2031 Women’s World Cup.

Globe reporters Michael Silverman and Chris Serres contributed to this report.

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