City of Alexandria officially kills Potomac Yard deal for the Wiz and Caps
Monumental Sports is expected to release a similar statement soon...acknowledging that the deal is dead.
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2y
Apparently...they are giving Monumental a renovated arena...and a large section of the Gallery Place complex to redevelop.
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2y
Which will be far more expensive and more importantly, way too close to my house.
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2y
stated. They include construction jobs that are temporary, and in reality, the construction of a stadium like this strains the construction market, which raises costs and delays schedules for everyone else. They also include part-time seasonal jobs, such as concession workers.
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2y
What's going on down there to make the caps need to leave?
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2y
We go to about 6 Caps games and the TSO Christmas concert every year. Chinatown/Gallery Place is going downhill fast like the rest of DC. There is no reason to invest in DC anymore.
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2y
Poor P-town. Low tax base, good chunk of federal property, and a truly dysfunctional city government. Commodore Theater rocks though!
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2y
All the focus on growth was in the city and upstate started to rot.
Its compounded since the.except a respite during Covid.
The response by ny state was to bring jobs to the upstate through casinos and prisons. But most of the legislative funding went to the city.
Seems like Virginia has that going on now or at least it appears so to me with much of the funding going to nova instead of rova.
** Edited by GreenvilleVT at 3/27/2024, 4:56:25 PM
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2y
The money to NOVA for the deal was rejected, but you are saying in NY the money flows to NYC. And btw, in Virginia more tax money leaves NOVA than flows in.
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2y
border-certified?
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2y
When the work thing is over I will likely leave due to the taxes and too many people, but the job market keeps me here for now haha
Like my neighborhood and I do not deal with traffic much so no real complaints (except taxes!)
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2y
anecdotes and feelings, my entire adult life I've heard from some that NoVA gets disproportionately too much funding and from others, just the opposite, that NoVA subsidizes the rest of the state. Frankly, people need to go Jerry Maguire on the subject or STFU.
#showmethemoney
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2y
I get it as we do not want the lower populations to not have the roads, etc.... but Richmond also needs to make sure they keep the economic engine of NOVA funded as needed
Link:
Money, it's a gas
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