Anonymous
12/26/2023 23:52
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:Lease has 15 years to go, so not worth speculating on for a long time.
Speculation is what successful VC firms do. That’s just about the right amount of time to acquire enough disassociated parcels and lots around various possible stadium locations to make a tidy profit when the time comes to sell them to other developers. In the meantime you’re still generating income from the tenet businesses.
Frankly I’m shocked anyone here doesn’t understand how VC works.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 23:31
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I heard they may tear down pentagon city mall for this. Metro is already there.
Why would they tear down a jobs and tax revenue generator for a baseball stadium?
Have you been to that mall lately??
Anonymous
12/26/2023 21:41
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:I heard they may tear down pentagon city mall for this. Metro is already there.
No, originally they were going to build it literally across the street, where the crazy hunger games Costco is. I worked on the deal. But they went with the Navy Yard instead.
There has been massive development around that area now since then.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 21:18
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:I heard they may tear down pentagon city mall for this. Metro is already there.
Spectacular! They can run a streetcar down Columbia Pike while they are at it.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 21:17
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:I heard they may tear down pentagon city mall for this. Metro is already there.
Put them at White Flint!! The Lerners already own the property!
Anonymous
12/26/2023 21:15
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lease has 15 years to go, so not worth speculating on for a long time.
You must be a DC council member.
Nah, I post about crime on this board all the time and hate what’s happened to the city. But worrying about the Nats when there lease isn’t up for 15 years is not as stupid as the idiots who think Baltimore will get and thrive as an NHL city, but in the same zip code.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 21:01
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:I heard they may tear down pentagon city mall for this. Metro is already there.
Why would they tear down a jobs and tax revenue generator for a baseball stadium?
Anonymous
12/26/2023 20:54
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
I live in Arlington and I hope not.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 20:37
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
I heard they may tear down pentagon city mall for this. Metro is already there.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 20:36
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Nashville.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 20:26
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:Lease has 15 years to go, so not worth speculating on for a long time.
You must be a DC council member.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 19:49
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Anonymous wrote:Lease has 15 years to go, so not worth speculating on for a long time.
+1
Anonymous
12/26/2023 19:48
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Arlington/Alexandria don’t want stadiums. They will vote it down.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 19:46
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Lease has 15 years to go, so not worth speculating on for a long time.
Anonymous
12/26/2023 19:31
Subject: Will the Nats be the next team to flee across the river?
Was talking to a friend in Arlington today and the VC group she works for is convinced the Nats will be pulling out of Navy Yard when their stadium lease is up. So much so they’re trying to anticipate possible sites to look at in Arlington where they can acquire properties ahead of a move announcement.
It’s so plausible I couldn’t even come up with a way to shoot down her speculation. It makes too much sense, given the amount of crime, including right there are in Navy Yard itself. It’s crazy seeing the city fall apart this fast after the decades it took to get to apogee.
It’s so plausible I couldn’t even come up with a way to shoot down her speculation. It makes too much sense, given the amount of crime, including right there are in Navy Yard itself. It’s crazy seeing the city fall apart this fast after the decades it took to get to apogee.