Andre Vega – Shaping a historic venue for a new era

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Andre Vega | Moody Nolan / Senior Project Manager, Building community, building teams

Written by: Jason Pafundi

When Andre Vega speaks about the redevelopment of Boston’s historic White Stadium, he does so with the calm confidence of someone who has spent decades steering complex projects – and with the unmistakable voice of a former athlete who knows what it means to lead from the center of the huddle. As a senior project manager for Moody Nolan, the nation’s largest Black-owned architecture firm, Vega is guiding a once-in-a-generation transformation of a facility that has defined public school athletics in Boston for more than 80 years.

For him, the work is both professional and personal. It draws together his 30-plus years in architecture, his extensive experience designing collegiate and public-school athletic facilities, and the lessons learned from a lifetime of playing and coaching sports: discipline, communication, teamwork, and an unshakeable resolve to elevate the people around him.

“I grew up in athletics,” he says. “You don’t have to like everybody on the team, but you have to find a way to play together.”

That mindset now guides one of the city’s most visible civic projects.