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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was involved in the DC United/Poplar Point plan. There were so many issues - the arsenic throughout the site from the greenhouses (estimated at $50 million to clean up in 2006). The main sewage pipe to Blue Plains that would have to be relocated ($100 million in 2006, although this work will need to be done sometime anyway). The highway ramp and access needed...there are a bunch of reasons including community sentiment that moved us away from this as a viable location for a 20,000 seat soccer stadium, much less a 60,000 seat football stadium.[/quote]

But the point is that most of these things - the arsenic clean-up, the moving of the sewage pipes, and the total re-design (if not relocation) of the Anacostia Highway - need to happen anyway to make the land usable, open up the Anacostia Waterfront and spur development in Ward 8. If putting an NFL stadium there, mobilizes more money faster to get these other things done, then it's a probably a win for the city (and definitely Ward 8) in the end.

Putting the site at RFK is a much easier lift from a development standpoint, but there is much less upside potential (and probably more downside potential) for the city by putting it there. The Fields at RFK are bringing thousands of people to the area every single day as it is. And it's not clear that those widely-used fields would even survive if we put an NFL stadium there. And the traffic issues would be as bad if not worse at RFK than at Poplar Point. [/quote]

Just look at what FedEx has done for Largo. So much development. [/quote]

Why not just stay at FedEx field? A new coat of paint and it's as good as new. Who cares if the billionaires want a shiny new toy paid for by the taxpayers.[/quote]

Does any other country do tho thing where we declare enormous stadiums obsolete every 20 years and knock them down and rebuild them?[/quote]

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