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Friday evening may be a good time to see the memorials and monuments. I think they are at their prettiest at night.
Air and Space is partially reopen now.
We ended up going to the Udvar Hazy, which was awesome, but a PIA to get to. They really need to finish the rail line to Dulles.
The rail line to Dulles is open now as well (opened in the fall). Udvar Hazy is not a stop on it though — would need to take Metro and then transfer to a bus.
Oh, we pay for them.
I think the arena has been holding up that area of downtown. I don’t want to get into politics, but I think DC has been slow to act, and more obsessed with trying to lure back the Commanders. They just passed some funding authorization for modernization, but may be too little, too late.
Woj reporting that Leonsis going to announce plans to build an arena in the Potomac Yard area of Alexandria at a press conference tomorrow. As someone who lives in Alexandria not too far from there… Whoa.
Sources: Leonsis plans to move Wiz, Caps to Va.
Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Wizards and the Washington Capitals, is expected to unveil plans to move the two teams to a massive new development in Alexandria's Potomac Yard neighborhood, sources told ESPN.www.espn.com
Nope - Going to miss watching it live too, as have a work call.Woj reporting that Leonsis going to announce plans to build an arena in the Potomac Yard area of Alexandria at a press conference tomorrow. As someone who lives in Alexandria not too far from there… Whoa.
Sources: Leonsis plans to move Wiz, Caps to Va.
Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Washington Wizards and the Washington Capitals, is expected to unveil plans to move the two teams to a massive new development in Alexandria's Potomac Yard neighborhood, sources told ESPN.
Youre not going to the announcement by any chance, are you? I was supposed to go this morning but I have a water main issue to deal with.
I assume everything in that area, with the new metro station, is zoned for super high density. So Nimbys would only be protesting the type of development.
Most of the complaints that I’ve seen from Alexandria residents to city leaders on social media so far have focused on traffic. I feel like that is manageable though. I mean, yeah, you might not want to go to the Potomac Yards PetSmart on a game night, but that whole strip mall that would be to the west of it is due for redevelopment anyway.
Speaking of Del Ray… currently listening to a Del Ray Citizens Association meeting that the Alexandria mayor is joining to discuss. NIMBYs are already out in full force.
Interesting. Are there other examples of a team making a big stadium/arena announcement and then it all falls apart? Seems like Monumental botched this process.
Well, last time a new arena announced for the Potomac Yard area in Alexandria was back in the Jack Kent Cooke days when leaving RFK.
I definitely remember Cooke eyeing Potomac Yards, but I wasn't sure if it was announced as a sure thing. Monumental made this sound like a lock and any opposition was futile.
Cooke and Gov. Wilder had a press conference and everything.
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Leonsis and Youngkin completely mishandled this. It's like if I announced worldwide was marrying Halle Berry without asking her first.
