Which would you hate more: Commanders leave DC, or Commanders stadium in your neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A football team and stadium is an amenity for the region, like parks, museums, and libraries. It isn't just about economic benefits. I'd love love to see the Commanders return to DC.

Football teams play like 8 games a year in their home stadium. It is not anywhere close to a museum or park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And if you'd LOVE to have the Commanders local to you because of that sweet sweet economic promise, I guess let us know that too.

You mean Commoders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they should really be at RFK. If I lived near it, I would welcome it. I don't want them where I currently live because there's no space for a stadium here.

I live near Hill East and I agree. I’m also looking forward to all the neighborhood busybodies crying about it.

I don't live in Hill East but not that far away, and I'd be okay with it if they could do figure out the parking situation. I don't want miles of parking lots. If they can find a way to incentivize public transit to games and also condense parking in underground lots and parking garages, I would accept it. I don't know how that works for tailgating culture.

I am a bit less concerned by the "only 8x a year" argument. It would not be used 8x a year. It would be a stadium concert and events venue as well and if it led to great commercial development around the stadium, all of that could be used year round. Look at how Nats Park gets used in the office season. It's actually fairly productive. And Navy Yard really has become a major destination and very economically successful neighborhood. If the can do the football stadium we'll, why wouldn't that work in Hill East.

I don't want to pay for it though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they should really be at RFK. If I lived near it, I would welcome it. I don't want them where I currently live because there's no space for a stadium here.

I live near Hill East and I agree. I’m also looking forward to all the neighborhood busybodies crying about it.

I don't live in Hill East but not that far away, and I'd be okay with it if they could do figure out the parking situation. I don't want miles of parking lots. If they can find a way to incentivize public transit to games and also condense parking in underground lots and parking garages, I would accept it. I don't know how that works for tailgating culture.

I am a bit less concerned by the "only 8x a year" argument. It would not be used 8x a year. It would be a stadium concert and events venue as well and if it led to great commercial development around the stadium, all of that could be used year round. Look at how Nats Park gets used in the office season. It's actually fairly productive. And Navy Yard really has become a major destination and very economically successful neighborhood. If the can do the football stadium we'll, why wouldn't that work in Hill East.

I don't want to pay for it though.

+100. Zero parking except for people with disabilities and employees.

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately they already gerrymandered the crap out of Hill East so that the RFK site is in a thin strip of Ward 7 instead of 6. Since most W7 residents are EOTR, they will happily support a new stadium because they're far away from all the negative effects that capitol hill residents nextdoor in W6 will have to suffer.

Kind of a genius political move if you think about it...

[Anonymous]

Leave the team in PG County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sadly, the Redskins are dead and buried.
No one cares about the Commoders despite what local media hype like WTOP is trying to make you believe.

They should move.

Was this an attempt at wit on your part?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What a name... Commanders?! What a lifeless, non-spirited name.

Unlike, for example, Browns. Or Titans. Those are some lively names. Practically get up and tap-dance.

Or Cardinal, or Tide, or Knickerbockers, or Metropolitans...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A football team and stadium is an amenity for the region, like parks, museums, and libraries. It isn't just about economic benefits. I'd love love to see the Commanders return to DC.

Football teams play like 8 games a year in their home stadium. It is not anywhere close to a museum or park.

How many individual museums do you visit 8 times a year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A football team and stadium is an amenity for the region, like parks, museums, and libraries. It isn't just about economic benefits. I'd love love to see the Commanders return to DC.

Football teams play like 8 games a year in their home stadium. It is not anywhere close to a museum or park.

An “amenity” like a park or museum except where parking is $50 and admission starts at $100 for each person. When there are already two stadiums suitable for concerts and other events 3.5 miles away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would hate to see them have a stadium in DC. Football stadiums are one of the worst returns on investment for a municipality, especially an urban one. A giant stadium surrounded by parking lots and used 8 times a year is a colossal waste of land.

Anyone who thinks the team should have a stadium in DC should not be taken seriously.

This. Only idiots want a football stadium in DC.

You both are engaging in a logical fallacy--"anyone who doesn't do what I want is by default stupid"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Build it in Chinatown

Question...how do you function? You clearly lack the intellect needed to survive in public if you're posting stupid takes like this

Do you really expect someone you insult to respond to you? Why would they be motivated to? They are not going to write back and say "yes I am stupid, but here is how I get by...thanks for your concern!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think they should really be at RFK. If I lived near it, I would welcome it. I don't want them where I currently live because there's no space for a stadium here.

I live near Hill East and I agree. I’m also looking forward to all the neighborhood busybodies crying about it.

I don't live in Hill East but not that far away, and I'd be okay with it if they could do figure out the parking situation. I don't want miles of parking lots. If they can find a way to incentivize public transit to games and also condense parking in underground lots and parking garages, I would accept it. I don't know how that works for tailgating culture.

I am a bit less concerned by the "only 8x a year" argument. It would not be used 8x a year. It would be a stadium concert and events venue as well and if it led to great commercial development around the stadium, all of that could be used year round. Look at how Nats Park gets used in the office season. It's actually fairly productive. And Navy Yard really has become a major destination and very economically successful neighborhood. If the can do the football stadium we'll, why wouldn't that work in Hill East.

I don't want to pay for it though.

Navy Yard is not in any way comparable with the RFK site. As far as I am aware the property along the river remains under the control of NPS.

Eight guaranteed events at a stadium built to accommodate 80,000 fans is a far cry from Nats Park and its baseline of 81 events with 41,600 ticket holders.

Also, options for development of commercial office space are much more constrained at RFK, nevermind the existing glut of vacant office space in DC and the surrounding suburbs, as well as the potential leasing submarket crash that could result from wholesale changes to federal government operations and spending.

I won’t dive into the changes to traffic on 295 since RFK was last used for a major event in 2017, nevermind “condensing” vehicles into underground garages as the backup extends for miles in every direction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave the team in PG County.

There’s no place like RalJon!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd hate the Commanders stadium in my neighborhood more, no question.

100%. This is a ridiculous question. Let's see here: You get your fee fees hurt because your team moved to the burbs, which is indeed pretty pathetic but overall it barely impacts your life.

On the other hand, someone builds a giant stadium that holds 75,000 people with 70% of those fans driving to the game, and sticks it right in your neighborhood. I used to live near Nats Park and the game day traffic sucked. NFL stadiums are way worse.

Anyway, never change DCUM.