They should not if Virginia wonāt pay for them.
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1)Thatās the amount of time it takes to get anywhere in the DMV, you plan accordingly and adjust.
2)DC residents need to get over it. They always talk about how much they love flying out Reagan, well, the proposed Monumental complex is like 100 feet from Reagan. Cross the damn river. No one complains about how hard it is to get to MGM National Harbor.
To be a bit less snarky, I get that there are what Iāll call historical reasons for DC residents to be leery of Virginia. But todayās Alexandria isnāt the Alexandria of the 70ās.
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Nah if DC could offer a similar package with money and land, then they stay in DC. Itās not political in that sense.
The issue is that you canāt expand in Chinatown and quite frankly Chinatown is back on the decline. More violent crimes there than anyway in the city not named Anacostia.
Itās business at the end of the day. I think people are over blowing the distance but I may be biased since I did that DC to Alexandria metro commute every day.
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I understand some of the complaints about the Caps moving. Seems like they have a solid contingent of fans who come from Maryland and now would have to travel roughly an hour more round trip on a weeknight. Iāve never encountered a single person who regularly attends Wizards games in my entire life.
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I canāt wait to see what breaks the monument group got from Va for this.
@zh00s youāre right this is absolutely part of a cynical game to label cities a certain way.
As far as 5 miles goes for framing DC is only 7sq miles.
Itāll kill whatās left of the zards. The Caps will probably thrive
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This part of this thread proved my point couple years ago about NOVA having no personality as an area to liveā¦ DC not far behind
I just want the Redskins/Commanders back in DC. Iāve been to exactly 2 games in Landover and that was 1 too many.
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Gave this a sh$t take cause of the DC comment. I lived in Nova forever and love Alexandria but youāre not wrong
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Snyder leaving helps that cause a ton. DC gov was not going to work with him.
But yea RFK shoulda come down 2 decades ago and been replaced
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Comparing nova and DC ā¦ smh. Never spent time in Shaw, H street, Columbia Heights, Anacostia.
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Maybe itās just nostalgia at my age, but I hate to see RFK come down. Iām not an engineer but I wish there was a way to keep the shell of the old stadium, gut it, and modernize. But probably more costly than bringing it down and starting fresh.
But there was nothing like atmosphere of RFK when the Skins were good. Cameron Indoor of the NFL, without the douchey Duke fans.
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Write to Great Wolf Lodgeā¦ could be the best one in the USā¦
ā¦ or get the Wisconsin folks who planned the Dells to come to DCā¦ Iām sure Tony knows them and can grease some skids.
Forgot this from Germanyā¦ of course something from Germany from me right?
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Yea Iām not a commanders fan but i did appreciate the rfk experience. But i went there for Nats and United games and it was awful. Would be a total remodel to the studs and an expansion
Fresh never saw Dragonās DC you wouldnāt say that
All I know is Foggy Bottom and The Tombs and Capital One, which was great
Just from a pure bar standpoint, Tombs has to be one of the best.
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Iām not even sure about an expansion.
Hate to keep using Cameron as an example, but they could have doubled the size of their arena 3 decades ago, but that would change the experience.
Cram 55K into a closed stadium and it literally shook. A true home field advantage.
But that said, Iām living in the past, and would probably never happenā¦too 1983 instead of 2023.
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Ironically FedEx has the lowest capacity of all NFL stadiums (after they closed off a bunch of seating).
And the stadium is still mostly empty. (And Josh Harris is already raising ticket prices).
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Yea Arlington and Alexandria are extremely different from the rest of Nova
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