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Offline MarquisDeSade

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Re: DC Commitment To Build Stadium a Success
« Reply #25: May 10, 2022, 10:19:11 AM »
On a related note, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser has come out in support of building a football stadium in DC since the name change from Redskins to Commanders. Although she would like the return of the local football team to DC, she said the city cannot match the 1 billion dollars plus some sales tax revenue Virginia has offered to build it there.

As much as I'd like to see the Commanders come back to DC, funding the construction of a football stadium is a much harder sell than baseball or even a shared arena for basketball and hockey. A football stadium only hosts 10 events a year.  Virginia wants the new stadium to be part of a new large complex. Of the three sites Virginia has proposed the closest to DC is still 30 miles away. Stinks but I can't blame DC for not matching that.

Bowser such an idiot. When the tax base leaves town for the burbs she’ll be nowhere to be found.