New Commanders Stadium at Poplar Point (Ward 8)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Isn't that the DC United plan that Fenty reneged upon?

FWIW, and I say this as a longtime D.C. United season ticketholder, reneging on that plan was the right call. No public money for private stadiums. They should have made the team pay for the infrastructure upgrades, etc., that the city paid for on Audi Field.

Fenty and the Council reneged on a deal to spend $150 mil on a Poplar Point stadium for DC United and then seven years later Bowser and the Council did a deal to spend $150 mil acquiring land in Buzzard Point for a stadium for DC United. So it goes.

[Anonymous]

Put the new stadium in DC or Maryland. I don't care where.

- Virginian

[Anonymous]

Is there a way to put it at National Harbor? Have them pay for that blue line extension thing while they’re at it.

[Anonymous]

DC already has control of Poplar Point so it could go quicker for Bowser, who is he’ll ent on this dumb stadium

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

The deal should be a stadium at Poplar Point in exchange for putting I-695, I-395, I-295 and DC 295 all underground (a la The Big Dig) so that all those cars - and the hundreds of thousands of others that drive through DC on a daily basis - can do so without being so much as seen by DC residents. Anacostia could reclaim its waterfront and the city would gain tens of square miles of new land.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

what kind of development could it be on contaminated land not suitable for housing? genuine question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

We can't build football stadiums in the US that are based on transit because we haven't built football stadiums in the US that are based on transit because we can't built football stadiums in the US that are based on transit because...

[Anonymous]

Does anyone remember the skyline from games at RFK you used to see on TV? That’s where it has to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

The deal should be a stadium at Poplar Point in exchange for putting I-695, I-395, I-295 and DC 295 all underground (a la The Big Dig) so that all those cars - and the hundreds of thousands of others that drive through DC on a daily basis - can do so without being so much as seen by DC residents. Anacostia could reclaim its waterfront and the city would gain tens of square miles of new land.

Team would flee to VA or MD immediately if DC tried any $15 billion baloney like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

I was going to Redskins games at RFK on the Metro before the Metro had reached Maryland. Tons of people took Metro to Redskins games.

[Anonymous]

+1

It was the best way to get to and from the games.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

The deal should be a stadium at Poplar Point in exchange for putting I-695, I-395, I-295 and DC 295 all underground (a la The Big Dig) so that all those cars - and the hundreds of thousands of others that drive through DC on a daily basis - can do so without being so much as seen by DC residents. Anacostia could reclaim its waterfront and the city would gain tens of square miles of new land.

Team would flee to VA or MD immediately if DC tried any $15 billion baloney like that.

Good riddance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I actually don’t hate this idea if they can figure out the logistics of moving people in and out without cars. The land is contaminated and not suitable for housing. It will bring large scale stadium concerts back into DC - eg, Taylor Swift and Coldplay. It would anchor a slew of new development on the waterfront.

I think the big issue is how to get people to/from the stadium. You can’t do car there, it would basically shut down the entire SE quadrant every time there was an event. It would be a security nightmare.

Maybe a dedicated underground train from a remote parking lot?

You obviously know nothing about football. Show me one football stadium that is public transit oriented. For many fans the whole point of game day is to get drunk in the parking lot with all your buddies. If they bring it to RFK, we'll have a giant mess of 80,000 cars cramming into the same small neighborhood.

I was going to Redskins games at RFK on the Metro before the Metro had reached Maryland. Tons of people took Metro to Redskins games.

OK grampa. Hope you can take the metro to Ashburn because we don't want the stadium in DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC does not want a football stadium.

Neither does Virginia.