Wizards and Caps could be moving to Potomac Yard

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Anonymous wrote:So I just looked at a map of where the professional hockey and basketball teams are located. LA and NYC, cities on par with DC, each have 2 basketball teams and 2 hockey teams. This area could definitely support more.
Additionally, there are places in the middle of no where, like Oklahoma City, Calgary, Winnipeg, or Edmonton that have teams; there are hockey teams in places that make no sense - Florida (?!?!) has two hockey teams. It doesn’t even have any snow there.
Let Leonsis sell out DC and take his precious teams to Virginia and we’ll simply go and get new teams from somewhere that doesn’t really need/deserve them because of geography.

I really wish low information posters just kept their thoughts to themselves. No second teams are coming here.

The Council ran this city into the ground. It’s hilarious those pizza chits actually thought statehood was a possibility.

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Anonymous wrote:All is not lost. Read about how Connecticut tried to get the Patriots to move to CT in the late 90s, which was basically a done deal….until it wasn’t.

Enough with this conspiracy theory. It’s not an act.

You don’t get the governor to change his schedule unless the deal is already signed.

I lived through the Patriots’ threatened move to CT. Complete with pressers with the CT gov. Did you read the SI article that’s a recap of events? There were loopholes in the agreement; MA political leaders woke up; shock, Pats found issues with the site and break the deal. Pats do not move to CT.

Just saying it’s not necessarily a done deal and the end of the world.

But you don't need to post the same thing 100 times. It's redundant, lame and desperate. Seriously, stop.

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Anonymous wrote:So I just looked at a map of where the professional hockey and basketball teams are located. LA and NYC, cities on par with DC, each have 2 basketball teams and 2 hockey teams. This area could definitely support more.
Additionally, there are places in the middle of no where, like Oklahoma City, Calgary, Winnipeg, or Edmonton that have teams; there are hockey teams in places that make no sense - Florida (?!?!) has two hockey teams. It doesn’t even have any snow there.
Let Leonsis sell out DC and take his precious teams to Virginia and we’ll simply go and get new teams from somewhere that doesn’t really need/deserve them because of geography.

DC is on par with Baltimore now, not NYC or LA.

Sorry that you are hemorrhaging businesses and amenities but DC is run by incompetent morons who turn a blind eye to crime because “they still babies.” You’re getting exactly what you deserve.

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Mayor Wilson was completely in on this. Now I know why he won't seek reelection. This is his dine and dash moment.

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Bowser and DC city Council were all having a mental health crisis and it's not their fault they didn't pay attention or do anything to keep Leonsis from moving the teams. Have some empathy (like all those random signs placed in Alexandria command you do).

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The big question is whether or not the Alexandria city council gets a vote. My bet would be that the state has found a way around that because I don't think it would have any chance of passing

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It seems like this is a done deal but it does still require approval of the whole Virginia Legislature and some leading Democrats aren't particularly interested.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. That will suck big time. Traffic is already horrible there. Leave them in DC.

You know there is a Potomac Yard metro stop now.

DP. That's not going to make a difference. People are going to come from Ashburn with their bigass 3 row SUVs and want to drive/park. PY has metro, but's it's nowhere near as convenient.

People from Ashburn. Heaven forfend!

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Anonymous wrote:So I just looked at a map of where the professional hockey and basketball teams are located. LA and NYC, cities on par with DC, each have 2 basketball teams and 2 hockey teams. This area could definitely support more.
Additionally, there are places in the middle of no where, like Oklahoma City, Calgary, Winnipeg, or Edmonton that have teams; there are hockey teams in places that make no sense - Florida (?!?!) has two hockey teams. It doesn’t even have any snow there.
Let Leonsis sell out DC and take his precious teams to Virginia and we’ll simply go and get new teams from somewhere that doesn’t really need/deserve them because of geography.

This might be the dumbest thing I've read this year. And it's the middle of December.

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Anonymous wrote:So I just looked at a map of where the professional hockey and basketball teams are located. LA and NYC, cities on par with DC, each have 2 basketball teams and 2 hockey teams. This area could definitely support more.
Additionally, there are places in the middle of no where, like Oklahoma City, Calgary, Winnipeg, or Edmonton that have teams; there are hockey teams in places that make no sense - Florida (?!?!) has two hockey teams. It doesn’t even have any snow there.
Let Leonsis sell out DC and take his precious teams to Virginia and we’ll simply go and get new teams from somewhere that doesn’t really need/deserve them because of geography.

DC is on par with Baltimore now, not NYC or LA.

Sorry that you are hemorrhaging businesses and amenities but DC is run by incompetent morons who turn a blind eye to crime because “they still babies.” You’re getting exactly what you deserve.

I agree that much of DC's issues are self inflicted and are generated from the mayor's office, city council, general attorney's office, etc. They have all turned a blind eye to the increase in crime that has occurred starting with the BLM marches and were only augmented by COVID and the resulting decisions to allow all the goldbrickers to WFH. This has caused DC to be an absolute ghost town. It has been 3+ years since COVID hit and 2 years since a vaccine and only now am I hearing friends that work in DC government talk about edicts on number of days they need to be in the office. It is only now that some of DC's courts are requiring in person hearing.

Saying all that some of this is on the federal government and its complete lack of pushing federal workers back into their offices. You want to solve the crime issue and business closure issue, get the feds back into their buildings. That will push the workers in the office above the current rate of somewhere around 40%.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. That will suck big time. Traffic is already horrible there. Leave them in DC.

You know there is a Potomac Yard metro stop now.

DP. That's not going to make a difference. People are going to come from Ashburn with their bigass 3 row SUVs and want to drive/park. PY has metro, but's it's nowhere near as convenient.

People from Ashburn. Heaven forfend!

People don't drive their bigass 3 row SUVS now? Maybe it will be more but this still happens. But, also agree PY's metro isn't built to handle those numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:How will this affect airport trafffic?

Airport traffic already sucks. Didn’t you see any the Thanksgiving holiday coverage? Take metro.

The virginia governor has refused to fund metro and as a result, the agency has announced plans to stop service at 10PM and cut many bus routes. Good luck getting back to the Wheaton or Herndon metro stops after a weeknight game.

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Anonymous wrote:So I just looked at a map of where the professional hockey and basketball teams are located. LA and NYC, cities on par with DC, each have 2 basketball teams and 2 hockey teams. This area could definitely support more.
Additionally, there are places in the middle of no where, like Oklahoma City, Calgary, Winnipeg, or Edmonton that have teams; there are hockey teams in places that make no sense - Florida (?!?!) has two hockey teams. It doesn’t even have any snow there.
Let Leonsis sell out DC and take his precious teams to Virginia and we’ll simply go and get new teams from somewhere that doesn’t really need/deserve them because of geography.

DC is on par with Baltimore now, not NYC or LA.

Sorry that you are hemorrhaging businesses and amenities but DC is run by incompetent morons who turn a blind eye to crime because “they still babies.” You’re getting exactly what you deserve.

I agree that much of DC's issues are self inflicted and are generated from the mayor's office, city council, general attorney's office, etc. They have all turned a blind eye to the increase in crime that has occurred starting with the BLM marches and were only augmented by COVID and the resulting decisions to allow all the goldbrickers to WFH. This has caused DC to be an absolute ghost town. It has been 3+ years since COVID hit and 2 years since a vaccine and only now am I hearing friends that work in DC government talk about edicts on number of days they need to be in the office. It is only now that some of DC's courts are requiring in person hearing.

Saying all that some of this is on the federal government and its complete lack of pushing federal workers back into their offices. You want to solve the crime issue and business closure issue, get the feds back into their buildings. That will push the workers in the office above the current rate of somewhere around 40%.

The BLM marches brought people IN to DC.
COVID is the main culprit here, and the city does not control what private employers nor the federal government policy in remote work.

This is all a money grab and nothing else. VA is giving Leonsis 70 acres and a billion dollars to build and control an entertainment complex.

The existing roads cannot handle what is being proposed and without Metro, people won't be able to get to it. Good luck with that Virginia.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh. That will suck big time. Traffic is already horrible there. Leave them in DC.

You know there is a Potomac Yard metro stop now.

DP. That's not going to make a difference. People are going to come from Ashburn with their bigass 3 row SUVs and want to drive/park. PY has metro, but's it's nowhere near as convenient.

People from Ashburn. Heaven forfend!

People don't drive their bigass 3 row SUVS now? Maybe it will be more but this still happens. But, also agree PY's metro isn't built to handle those numbers.

I think Ted prefers fans driving their bigass SUVs and paying for parking

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RIP Chinatown