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New Stadium Focus Is Parking

District Appears to Put Area Revitalization Plans on Hold

District government leaders appear resigned to slowing their efforts to create mixed-use development near the new Washington Nationals baseball stadium in Southeast, concentrating instead on ensuring adequate parking when the ballpark opens.

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Poor Season Raises the Stakes for Stadium

Nationals Look to New Ballpark as Base of a More Lucrative, More Successful Future

The Washington Nationals' disappointing on-field performance this season, coupled with a drop in ticket sales at 45-year-old RFK Stadium, has underscored the importance of finishing a new $611 million ballpark in time for the 2008 season.

Heading into today's finale against the New York Mets at RFK, the Nationals carry a 71-90 record, the worst in the National League East. The team has sold 2.1 million tickets, down from 2.7 million last season, and the average sales of 26,501 tickets per game rank the Nationals 21st out of 30 Major League Baseball teams.

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Mayor Proposes Lifting Cap for Stadium Parking

Six months after the D.C. Council voted to cap the rising costs of the Washington Nationals baseball stadium at $611 million, Mayor Anthony A. Williams now says the city needs an additional $75 million in public funds to finish the job.

The extra money, which would require approval from the council, would be used to help pay for parking garages on city land just north of the ballpark, near South Capitol Street and the Navy Yard in Southeast Washington.

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Cropp Pushes for Decision on Parking

Council to Consider Mayor's Proposal to Add $75 Million for Underground Lots

The debate over parking for the new $611 million Washington Nationals baseball stadium has dragged on for months, and council Chairman Linda W. Cropp called on the mayor and council yesterday to make a decision.

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No, you really don't see the stadium construction until you are crossing the South Capitol St. Bridge.

Ah, well theres some big development going on thats visible from the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Going northbound, looking right, towards the Maryland side, there are several tower cranes working on something along the riverfront. Is there any sort of development that sounds familiar?

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Ah, well theres some big development going on thats visible from the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. Going northbound, looking right, towards the Maryland side, there are several tower cranes working on something along the riverfront. Is there any sort of development that sounds familiar?

Yes, the name of the project is National Harbor a mixed use residential, entertainment and business project.

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Fenty Plan Promotes Aboveground Parking

D.C. Democratic mayoral nominee Adrian M. Fenty is pushing a plan that he said would resolve a long-standing dispute with the Washington Nationals by building two aboveground parking garages near the new baseball stadium in time for Opening Day 2008.

Fenty said his plan would maintain the city's $611 million cost cap on the project, although it would require tens of millions of dollars in additional stadium-generated revenue that the city otherwise would be free to spend on other needs.

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But city council says "No" to Fenty:

Stadium Garages Proposal Rejected

D.C. Now Lacks Plan for Parking

The D.C. Council narrowly rejected a proposal yesterday to build aboveground garages near a new baseball stadium under construction on the Anacostia waterfront, leaving city officials without a plan to provide parking for the Washington Nationals when the ballpark opens in 2008...

As a result, the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission is running out of time and options to provide the parking spaces. Under the stadium agreement, the city must provide 1,225 spaces on the stadium site near South Capitol Street and the Navy Yard along the Anacostia River in Southeast by March 1, 2008.

If the city fails to provide the required spaces, it could be liable to pay millions of dollars in legal damages to the team.

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Developer sues D.C. over stadium parking proposal

Developer Herb Miller says he had two choices: He could walk away from the $6 million he'd sunk into an all-but-dead deal to build a $300 million housing, retail and parking complex at the new baseball stadium or he could go to court.

On Monday -- the day before the D.C. Council is slated to vote on a different proposed solution to the stadium parking controversy -- Miller's Western Development filed a lawsuit in D.C. Superior Court, asking the judge to stop the parking project.

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Fenty Scores Early Legislative Victory As Stadium Parking Plan Is Approved

The D.C. Council approved a plan yesterday to build parking garages next to the new baseball stadium in Southeast, resolving a months-long deadlock with the Washington Nationals and putting the ballpark on track to open in 2008.

The council's action represents the first legislative victory for Mayor-elect Adrian M. Fenty (D-Ward 4), who, over the past several weeks, had convinced his colleagues that moving the stadium parking project forward is critical to its success.

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Nationals Stadium Nears Completion

The expensive new stadium (over $600,000,000) which will house the Washington Nationals is nearing its anticipated completion in March. The first game should be on the 29th of March. Architecturally, I suppose it has a few flourishes, but I'm not greatly impressed when one considers the amount of money that has been thrown at this project. In may ways, I strongly dislike the idea of corporate welfare which has propelled the stadium to reality. On the other hand, investment in the Anacostia waterfront has been slow to come to fruition, so the prospect of something big and shiny in the neighborhood may spur other developments. Thoughts anyone?

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Nationals Stadium Nears Completion

The expensive new stadium (over $600,000,000) which will house the Washington Nationals is nearing its anticipated completion in March. The first game should be on the 29th of March. Architecturally, I suppose it has a few flourishes, but I'm not greatly impressed when one considers the amount of money that has been thrown at this project. In may ways, I strongly dislike the idea of corporate welfare which has propelled the stadium to reality. On the other hand, investment in the Anacostia waterfront has been slow to come to fruition, so the prospect of something big and shiny in the neighborhood may spur other developments. Thoughts anyone?

The Washington Post

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Sign Controversy and Vending Woes

The city council wants to place a sign in the direct line of sight of the stadium to promote the notion of statehood for the District. Understandably, the owners of the Nationals aren't thrilled with the idea. Whatever one's thoughts about the idea of statehood are for the district, using a ballpark as a bully pulpit is not appropriate. The city ant the owners are also sparring over whether or not to allow hot dog and other food vendors to ply their trade outside the new stadium. While I concur with the democratic aspects of the idea, its practical application would not be attractive. I still wonder whether or not this was a just use of $611m of our tax dollars.

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