Monumental Sports executives have talked to Virginia government officials about relocating the Capitals and Wizards from downtown D.C. to Northern Virginia, near Amazon’s new HQ2
June 23, 2023
Not using the article title for this post since it doesn’t mention the Caps, but a large portion of the article focuses on the Caps and Capitol One Arena’s future.
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Can’t read the article because it’s paywalled but I don’t like the idea of that 🙁
Disgusting. Ted should be shamed out of this as heavily as possible by local media
Capitol One Arena is owned by Monumental Sports and the lease with the city could expire as soon as 2027. Apparently Monumental/Leonsis wants the city to help pay for some upgrades to the building including the HVAC system and ice cooling equipment.
Unless Monumental expects to get a huge public money handout from Virginia to build a new arena, I don’t understand how the economics of building an entirely new arena makes sense over repairs to the existing one.
I like the current location but Arlington would be a few minutes closer. I’m intrigued. Apparently the land deal Leonsis has for his Arena is shitty
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Can’t read the article because it’s paywalled but I don’t like the idea of that 🙁
Disgusting. Ted should be shamed out of this as heavily as possible by local media
Capitol One Arena is owned by Monumental Sports and the lease with the city could expire as soon as 2027. Apparently Monumental/Leonsis wants the city to help pay for some upgrades to the building including the HVAC system and ice cooling equipment.
Unless Monumental expects to get a huge public money handout from Virginia to build a new arena, I don’t understand how the economics of building an entirely new arena makes sense over repairs to the existing one.
I like the current location but Arlington would be a few minutes closer. I’m intrigued. Apparently the land deal Leonsis has for his Arena is shitty
[gift link to story](https://wapo.st/3JsM9yO)
What’s the point of changing the name to Monumental if you are moving to NoVA?
Man this would suck as a fan from Baltimore, realistically its not too much further but it being right in the city is so much more convenient
I don’t think the district government would stand for that.
The post title leaves out a lot of context. I’d encourage everyone to read the full article.
Despicable!
Ted is on one this week. Allowing Qataris to buy into Monumental and now this shit