Come back DCDeac, defend your take more
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This just supports my take better than any other way I can think of.
It's no secret that DC has been just atrociously managed across dozens of avenues before, during, and after COVID. Where to even start? We paid a fortune as a company for easily the worst suite in the history of sports last year for Caps games. The description wasn't even CLOSE to what was delivered - cold, awful food. No booze refills, a fridge that didn't work. A total joke. Suite next to us same deal. Year after year of just ignoring the teams and their ownerships' requests. And hey, I'm sure there are fans somewhere out there of how DC has managed crime over the past few years in Chinatown, but probably not my buddy who had a guy die in front of his house nearby or the husband of a coworker who was shot last year. Doing fine now by the way. The city can cry all they want about losing revenue - nobody said they won't lose a ton of tax revenue. They went for money grabs rewarding Nando's and Chipotle and chain after chain downtown forcing out small businesses, preventing any development and pushing all the investments to dumps like Union Market (now awesome, but not back then) and the burbs.
WMATA funding is struggling? Oh no! If only someone would pay millions and millions of dollars to feed WMATA by building a new station! Oh right, the City of Alexandria just did that. With zero stolen tax dollars and zero WMATA funding because they encouraged private development. You'd think Atlanta would have been a warning sign to metro areas who think they're just guaranteed their local sports team forever regardless of the investments they make or the dumps they overcharge them to play in. Guess not.
Having listened to a week of call-ins, radio coverage from the Fan and elsewhere, locals, etc - the fact that DC simply screwed this up and is getting what they deserve is like 75% of the input. Sad to see team leave the district? Sure. Will it suck for tax revenue? Yep. Will it suck for Guy Fiere's place? Oh no! Sure beats Landover, MD... Speaking of which this will probably help force the Commanders back to the RFK site, Nats stadium still great, and Caps/Wiz will be 3 metro stops further from the new stadium than the ballpark is, just yellow instead of green. Whining DC folks need to take it up with their city leadership, not throw stones at Virginia.