Posts tagged Nationals Ballpark
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Breakfast links: Affordable housing
Affordable housing debate; What affordable housing?; No more Half Street; Closing sidewalks in Bethesda; “Woods” against the bus; Cycling incidents go down; America’s changing suburbs; Metro pedestrian bridge coming in January; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Getting to sports
Clawed pays for Screech; What about soccer?; Silver lining for bike parking; Less money from cameras; Charter school turnaround; Stop for the hand; Shipping container complex; No bar here; Transit strife; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Changes in the neighborhood
To pop or not to pop; Navy Yard a hit; Play place DC; Benefits for Buzzard Point; Redeveloping Grimke; Lake of debate; Dining outside gets easier in DC; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Bowser ahead early
Bowser ahead in early poll; Area economy not faring well; Olympics march builds up; Metro to the playoffs; Art needed for Purple Line; Arlington streetcar moves forward; Redevelopment starts in Glenmont; Non-retail retail?; Where the US is like Scotland; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Streetcar, streetcar, streetcar
Big interest in streetcar; Streetcar is a cash cow; Do streetcars count?; Not just red light cameras anymore; Misleading poll question?; The transit Super Bowl; Why transit remains Balkanized; And…; Thanks, Guardian!. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Going up, coming down
What to put at Reeves?; Weekend track work waning; Free parking!; Take down a parking lot; Maryland foreclosures bounce back; Streamlining SmarTrip; Next stop, Roanoke; And…; Plus…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Debates and delays
Streetcar uncertainly slows development; McMillan goes to Zoning Commission; Lighter and faster trains en route?; Minimum wage in Montgomery to rise; Uncertainty after auction; Next stop: Georgetown?; Put a lid on it; And…. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Gentrification is complicated
Discord in Brookland; Affordable housing for DC; Height limit a home rule issue; Fasten your seat belt; Tysons outperforming DC; Add some color; And…. Keep reading…
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Will a DC United stadium be worth it?
Last week, we looked at how much DC taxpayers have paid to build and maintain Nationals Park. What are they getting in return? And will the city’s deal to build a new soccer stadium be worth it? In 2003, baseball boosters hired consulting firm Brailsford & Dunlavey to estimate the benefits of a Major League Baseball team in DC. Later, they would help manage the design and… Keep reading…
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Was Nationals Park worth it for DC?
DC has proposed building a new soccer stadium at Buzzard Point with help from public funds. The city already did this for Nationals Park, but did it work? We can find out by doing a cost-benefit analysis. Building Nationals Park cost $701.3 million, according to a 2008 estimate. DC contributed $670.3 million, paying $135 million upfront and borrowing another $535 million. In… Keep reading…