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It's interesting the last several posts.  It seems like there is overall agreement about the shortage of sports facilities in the DMV, at least compared to other cities of this size.

Is it perhaps because we do not have a lot of local large corporations that can help to fund the arenas/rinks/fields?  This seems like a plausible reason, as I see in cities in the midwest how the local corporations often help with funding facilities, as a way to support their local community.

Or has there been a lack of leadership/vision in the DMV to build facilities?

It would be nice if the counties could join forces to do an assessment of what needs are most urgent, by comparing the DMV to other cities.  Then try to find the funding.  For funding, we could ask the older generations to help -- if we mention that sports facilities help the younger generations to keep fit/healthy and off of their devices, I think that many of them would see that it would be a very good use of money.
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A big problem in the DMV as compared to the Midwest are that the population are heterogenous and many of the "Sports" clubs have vestigial "Segregation" issues.  For example: swimming or ice hockey it's sort of two issues really.  The public resources decided to go private so that they could control who had access to the facilities.  They build plenty of private members only pools for example.  The other issue is that many of the DMV are "neotropical" in the sense that they don't really want pools for anything but the three hottest days of the summer or an ice rink like ever.  As compared to a homogenous population in Missouri where everyone is going to get use out of the pool or Minnesota where everyone is going to go ice skating.[/quote]

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