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It's annoying to me that our DC rulers take businesses and residents for granted. They just have assumed for a decade now that they don't need to offe anything. FBI leaves... Flippant. Sports leave.... Flippant. Residents leave "we need more condos". Nightmare rulers.
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This.  Bowser and the DC Council completely took Monumental Sports for granted.  Potomac Yards is a vastly inferior site in terms of public transit but Virginia aggressively pursued Monumental.   What is infuriating is that the Mayor was so focused on bringing football (8 to 10 games to year) back to RFK that she (and the Council) ignored retaining the Wizards and the Caps ---which is over 40 home games (with all the attendant economic benefits) in the heart of downtown.  And what is worse is that a significant number of the current council neither understands nor cares that they just killed one of the golden geese that lays those eggs they like to soak to pay for their current progressive pipe dream du jour.[/quote]

They don't care about location or fan convenience. This is about 70 acres and 2 billion dollars as a windfall to Ted Leonsis. The city doesn't have that kind of space to give to the team, ergo there was never going to be a fair or equal negotiation.

The deal Abe Pollin cut with the city, that Leonsis inherited, is good for the city and bad for the owner. That was Abe being a benefactor to the city he loved. Ted is about the money and doesn't care about the city of community. If he loses part of his fan base, he doesn't care. As others have noted up thread, there are plenty of tech/Amazon/Defense contractors who will be happy to fill the void.[/quote]

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