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D.C. Mayor: Making Progress on Baseball Deal

WASHINGTON - Mayor Tony Williams says he's making headway in his efforts to win public support and votes on the D.C. Council for a baseball stadium agreement.

Williams says the debate has shifted over the past year away from whether public dollars should be used to build a ballpark for the Washington Nationals.

Now they're talking about how to contain spending and make sure there's an adequate contribution from Major League Baseball for cost overruns.

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Cropp Proposes 'Compromise' on D.C. Stadium

Council Chairman Tells Mayor in Letter That Plan Would Ensure Enough Votes for Lease Deal

D.C. Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp sent a letter to Mayor Anthony A. Williams yesterday detailing a plan that she said would guarantee council support for the stalled stadium project.

After a flurry of meetings with her colleagues, the mayor and Major League Baseball officials over the past few days, Cropp listed 10 provisions that she said would ensure that at least seven of the council's 13 members would vote to approve a critical stadium lease deal.

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Nationals Find New Home on Airwaves

WASHINGTON -- There's no owner or stadium deal, but the Nationals have found a new home on the airwaves. Starting this year, the Washington Post Radio will broadcast all the Nats' game.

Bonneville International Corporation and the Nationals made the announcement Thursday.

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Stadium Design Retooled to Cut Costs

Changes Part of Push To Win Lease Approval

District government officials are modifying the architectural design of a new baseball stadium, relying less heavily on glass as a key exterior feature, to reduce costs and win approval for a lease agreement from the D.C. Council.

The changes are intended to save tens of millions of dollars and limit the potential for cost overruns, said sources with knowledge of the discussions.

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I don't think the D.C. Government particularly cares one way or the other about the people in the neighborhood. The stadium project is simply an excuse to bring out the bulldozers to a neighborhood the city wishes would simply vanish- just as the West End and Southwest Washington vanished beneath the blades of bulldozers many years ago. I'm sure there are some well connected contractors out there who are drooling at the thought of all the concrete about to be poured for the project. Residents? Who needs them anyway.... They just demand more services from the city. Let's build a nice big stadium instead! This is going to be a HUGE boondoggle. I can feel it coming.

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Private Stadium Funding Canceled

Deutsche Bank Deal Collapses

A District government plan to use $246 million in private financing from Deutsche Bank to help build a new baseball stadium has collapsed, a political blow to the D.C. Council, which spent months pushing to reduce public investment in the project.

D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi said the deal has been called off in part because the bank was seeking a $5 million fee to structure the financing arrangement. But another complication emerged yesterday when bank spokesman Ted Meyer said the bank had a signed contract with the District and remains entitled to the payment if the city uses the bank's strategy.

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Mayor Continues Push for Stadium Deal

WASHINGTON - Mayor Tony Williams is hoping Major League Baseball will agree to the city's stadium deal for the Washington Nationals this week, but for now he's busy talking up the development he thinks a new ballpark will bring.

"We've been in daily contact with them. We've worked with our lawyers, and with the (chief financial officer) to see that everybody's got the right interpretation of what this lease does," Williams said Monday.

"We all know where the trouble points are, but I think we can our work our way through them and get this done."

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D.C. Finance Chief Approves Council's Stadium Spending Cap

Baseball Must Agree the City Won't Pay Overruns, Gandhi Says

D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi yesterday endorsed a baseball stadium spending cap adopted by the city council last week, saying he has no objections as long as Mayor Anthony A. Williams and Major League Baseball approve the plan.

In a three-paragraph letter to Williams (D) and D.C. Council Chairman Linda W. Cropp (D), Gandhi said the council's $611 million spending limit on city funds for the project will not jeopardize his bid to get an investment-grade rating from Wall Street on the construction bonds.

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Court Holds Up D.C. Bid for Private Land

Judge Wants Baseball Lease Pact Before Giving Land for Stadium

A D.C. Superior Court judge said yesterday that she will wait until the District and Major League Baseball agree on a stadium lease before granting the city government possession of 12 acres of privately held land needed for the project.

Judge Joan Zeldon said during a hearing that she is ready to give the city the land but wants to be sure the stadium will be built before signing the order

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