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Anonymous wrote:Ugh we live in VA and love the Caps, go to lots of games, and I hate this for DC.

+1

And I hate it for VA. Terrible location.

+2 Same. It will be terrible for downtown DC. I’m grew up in the area and definitely remember what it was like around Gallery Place before the arena. It is very much one of the major developments that sparked the city’s revitalization.

Not to worry. Bowser is on it. She's forming a Gallery Pl task force.

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Anonymous wrote:How did all of the DC government get seemingly caught with their pants down on this? Usually when new stadiums/arenas and team moves are on the table there’s years of public back and forth. Alexandria/the VA delegation had some incentive to keep it quiet until the last minute but - really, the mayor and council never heard anything from anyone involved until a few days ago???

He has been meeting with Bowser and Mendo. He has been expressing concerns re: changes in Chinatown since a press conference in March 2023. There have been several WP articles.

I think Bowser was priortizing football and they did not think they were running out of time and did not prioritize it. They read Leonsis wrong, clearly. And discounted the relationship he has with Younkin and how well VA would work together to bring the opportunity.

Youngkin in his past life closed a lot of deals. And Terry the Macker knew how to get a deal done. Bowser and her team should have realized they were up against major league pros.

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Anonymous wrote:Ugh we live in VA and love the Caps, go to lots of games, and I hate this for DC.

+1

And I hate it for VA. Terrible location.

+2 Same. It will be terrible for downtown DC. I’m grew up in the area and definitely remember what it was like around Gallery Place before the arena. It is very much one of the major developments that sparked the city’s revitalization.

Not sure I've ever seen Bowser so uneasy.

Anonymous wrote:How did all of the DC government get seemingly caught with their pants down on this? Usually when new stadiums/arenas and team moves are on the table there’s years of public back and forth. Alexandria/the VA delegation had some incentive to keep it quiet until the last minute but - really, the mayor and council never heard anything from anyone involved until a few days ago???

He has been meeting with Bowser and Mendo. He has been expressing concerns re: changes in Chinatown since a press conference in March 2023. There have been several WP articles.

I think Bowser was priortizing football and they did not think they were running out of time and did not prioritize it. They read Leonsis wrong, clearly. And discounted the relationship he has with Younkin and how well VA would work together to bring the opportunity.

Anonymous wrote:How did all of the DC government get seemingly caught with their pants down on this? Usually when new stadiums/arenas and team moves are on the table there’s years of public back and forth. Alexandria/the VA delegation had some incentive to keep it quiet until the last minute but - really, the mayor and council never heard anything from anyone involved until a few days ago???

Yes, the money.

But they were also going to have to address the crime issue to keep the team, and the Mayor and Council refuse to do that.

addressing crime would mean admitting how wrong they were in 2020 and acknowledging their own policies created what we have now.

I'm a Marylander, so I have no stake in this fight, but I have to hand it to Virginia: They're better at business than DC or Maryland.

TBH, DC deserves to lose the Wizards and Caps. Chinatown has become terrifying and between the violent, criminal teens on the loose and the abuse of marijuana in that area, I'm not surprised to see the Wizards and Caps go. It's time for DC leadership to wake up and get to work. The status quo of ignoring problems is not working.

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They clearly didn’t think through many critical aspects of this project.

I doubt you or the Twidiot have ever been to an outdoor concert. The airport is likely to call and ask them to turn it down so they can hear themselves in the control tower.

They re-route traffic at LGA for the US Open, which is farther than this is to DCA.

How did all of the DC government get seemingly caught with their pants down on this? Usually when new stadiums/arenas and team moves are on the table there’s years of public back and forth. Alexandria/the VA delegation had some incentive to keep it quiet until the last minute but - really, the mayor and council never heard anything from anyone involved until a few days ago???

Anonymous wrote:Ugh we live in VA and love the Caps, go to lots of games, and I hate this for DC.

+1

And I hate it for VA. Terrible location.

Anonymous wrote:Just makes me sad. So many people worked so hard to bring back DC's downtown three decades ago. Now it's all over.

By driving out US Air arena as a venue.

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Anonymous wrote:Now Mayor Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser can replace Capital One Arena with a big Black Lives Matter Monument!

Clearly the BLM leadership has more insight into the real estate business than does the DC mayor and her hapless crew.

Yeah but they made the mistake of using all the donation money to buy mansions in tax heavy California. They should have hired a better accountant.

Or used the "charitable" contributions to buy pricey real estate in Florida.

FL is the way to do it when charges may be coming...

Bowser looks rattled and like she may cry.

Bowser LIVE

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Anonymous wrote:Now Mayor Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser can replace Capital One Arena with a big Black Lives Matter Monument!

Clearly the BLM leadership has more insight into the real estate business than does the DC mayor and her hapless crew.

Yeah but they made the mistake of using all the donation money to buy mansions in tax heavy California. They should have hired a better accountant.

Or used the "charitable" contributions to buy pricey real estate in Florida.