City and school officials are weighing a public-private partnership with Boston Unity Soccer Partners, a group of investors seeking to bring a women’s professional soccer team to Boston and proposing a $30 million overhaul of city-owned White Stadium in Franklin Park.

“We believe that a stadium can serve as a catalyst for positive change, fostering economic growth, community engagement, and social development,” Jennifer Epstein, Boston Unity’s controlling manager, wrote in the proposal. “We will center this project through an equity lens and move forward ready to listen, learn, and partner in ways that are authentic.”

The stadium, originally built for BPS athletic programs in the 1940s, was damaged in a fire years ago that destroyed the east grandstand interior.

An inside look under White Stadium. Image via Jeremiah Robinson/Mayor’s Office

In April, Mayor Wu announced a request for proposals (RFP) to “renovate, rebuild and reimagine” the stadium, which does not meet current codes or accessibility requirements.

Dion Irish, the city’s chief of operations, said the RFP’s key requirements were to “enhance and complement BPS athletics,” “contribute to the economic development of the surrounding community” and “respect the impacts that activation has on neighbors of the park and White Stadium.”

Brianna Millor, chief of community engagement, said she wants the public to be included in decisions about the partnership, which, she said, would still keep the stadium under BPS ownership.

Boston Unity Soccer Partners LLC, an entity registered in Delaware, is owned and managed by women, and it is a National Women’s Soccer League professional club. It was the only responder to the RFP. Boston Unity’s renovation timeline would allow for its team to hold games — 20 a year — at the stadium starting in the 2026 season.

More than 40 percent of Boston Unity Soccer Partners’ invested capital is invested by people of color, and over 95 percent by women, Epstein said.

The group’s proposal includes plans to improve the nearby grove — an amenity space — for sporting, private, and community events. “The goal of the grove is to create a flexible gathering place that can be reconfigured in a number of ways based on the activities desired,” Epstein said. “It will become a magnet destination in itself and enhance the activation of the park.”

In other fixes, Boston Unity would renovate the west grandstand, and the city would upgrade the east grandstand.

Other than sporting events, the stadium would host graduations, youth summer camp, job fairs, seasonal activities, and cultural and music festivals.

The proposal also outlines how Boston Unity will engage with Boston Public Schools to support Boston’s youth through a mentorship and internship programs and scholarship fund.

If awarded to Boston Unity, the plan states, the investors would support the community by providing local food trucks and restaurants the opportunity to cater events. They also would hire and contract locally, creating over 500 new construction and 300 new permanent jobs.

“We intend to draw from and foster the people and businesses from these communities to create a lasting economic engine,” Epstein said.

Evan Brinkman, assistant director for design in the city’s Public Facilities Department, said last year that in collaboration with BPS, the department began a design and feasibility study for White Stadium.

The assessment identified a need for expanding office spaces, improving locker rooms, adding new track lanes, and renovating the press box. “Wish list” items include a center focused on strength and conditioning and sports medicine, and a half size indoor turf field.

During a meeting last week about stadium renovations, members of the public voiced their concerns about noise, traffic, and congestion, preserving nature and wildlife, and access to the stadium for community members.

Still, some expressed excitement about the project’s prospects.

A self-proclaimed “soccer fanatic,” Juan Fernando Lopera, Beth Israel Lahey Health’s chief of diversity and inclusion officer, said he supports the project because he believes “in the prosperity that the White Stadium renovation brings to the city. As a father of a three year old daughter…who’s already showing a powerful soccer kick, I also feel that I’m investing in her future,” he said. “I strongly believe that the success of this new soccer franchise will be because of the commitments we’re collectively making to White Stadium, to the surrounding communities, to women, and to communities of color.”