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After this morning's news that the Prince George's County Council appears to have blocked DC United from building a new stadium in the county, DC United fans have spent the day worrying about the future of the team. Now the Washington Business Journal's Tierney Plumb reports that hope still hasn't gone out of style: officials in both Montgomery County and Frederick County have reportedly expressed at least initial interest in building a stadium for the team. So now we're talking maybe Shady Grove or Germantown? Those are even farther away from the center of the city than the hypothetical PG stadium. Of course, any such development would likely rest on the original, and still unpopular plan to have the Maryland Stadium Authority float bonds. Color us skeptical.
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Virginia needs to get into this action.
Too low brow.
And yet somehow too highbrow for Tha P. Geezy.
That's lost on me...sorry.
Shady Grove is the name of a metro station, not of an actual locale.
Totally. Put it at the bottom of that godforsaken gravel pit out by Dulles, where those tards incompetent fools conspired to build a Major League Baseball stadium.
I was going to get all worked up about a Frederick stadium, but lets face it, Germantown (or Darnestown where the soccer plex is located in MoCo) may as well be Frederick for a lot of us....
Boyds United!
I guess its better than St. Louis or Portland or Miami
Tierney Plumb?
That sounds like a made-up name.
Is your tierney plumb?
Where is there room for a stadium near Shady Grove metro?
Shady grove: they can put it next to the waste transfer station and smell garbage all day long.
2 words: Pro Kickball.
The last thing the Shady Grove area needs is a stadium. Already 5 of the 10 busiest routes on Metro originate at Shady Grove, and the station itself and the Red Line in general are woefully inadequate to handle even weekday commuter traffic.
Surely there is room for a stadium in D.C., but after the Nationals stadium debacle and given the ineptitude of D.C. government I wouldn't hold my breath....
As long as it's metro-accessible, I could care less what county/state it's in.
Poplar Point take two? Come on Fenty, step up to the plate and make something happen.
While DC United (i.e., San Francisco-based developer Victor McFarland) was going to pay for the stadium, they were getting the land for free and also would have received development rights to adjacent city-owned land. It wasn't a giveaway the size of the sucker bet called "Nationals Park," but then again, that would be hard to top. "DC United" is basically a real estate outfit that happens to own an MLS team.
Developing real estate in Ward 8, God forbid. What's wrong with giving McFarlane development rights and helping to bring money and investment to a part of town that hasn't seen any in the past decade?
Isn't that better than letting the property fester in disrepair as the DC government continues to fumble this project as it has from day 1. Their chosen developer, Clark Realty, backed out AFTER they pulled McFarlane's deal off the table and now nothing is moving forward.
Shady Grove is not an 'area.' Never in the history of humankind has someone claimed to be from 'Shady Grove.' There are people from Gaithersburg. There are people from Rockville. There are folks from Derwood. And occasionally, when explaining their residence to DC residents, people refer to their home as being at the 'end of the red line,' but 'Shady Grove' refers to the name of a nearby road. They should build the stadium somewhere at the other end of the red line, if Wheaton can find some space.
You must be from Shady Grove.
I've got an idea that nobody has thought of yet: an underground stadium, 900 feet below Metro Center. There can be express elevators to take all the players and fans down, conveniently right below the Metro. BAM. Case closed.