Today the Post follows up on our report that Mayor Vince Gray is still looking to bringing a Washington Redskins training facility from Loudoun County to the east end of Capitol Hill. Writes the Post:

Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D), a longtime Redskins fan, has taken a personal interest in the effort. He has tasked City Administrator Allen Y. Lew with developing a plan that could entice the team.

Gray, Evans and other officials have met several times with top team representatives over the past year, including General Manager Bruce Allen. At Allen’s suggestion, Gray, Evans and council member Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) quietly toured the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ state-of-the-art facility in November.

“We are talking to them — absolutely,” said Pedro Ribeiro, Gray’s spokesman. “I don’t think it’s a secret to anybody.”

But much to the chagrin of the people that live near the 67-acre plot of land where the facility would be located, Gray and his officials haven’t really been talking to them. This week, though, Gray agreed to meet with Ward 6 and 7 residents at the end of March to discuss the developing plans for the Redskins facility, which would take up 30 acres of land next to RFK Stadium.

At that meeting, expect members of the community to demand to know exactly what sort of enticements Gray has offered Dan Snyder as a means to lure him back to the District. Unless one of those is that Snyder will pay for the land and foot the bill for the entirety of the construction, don’t expect much more than a lot of skepticism. The land around RFK has been ripe for development for years, and Capitol Hill neighbors don’t seem happy to hear that what was once a plan for mixed-use development might turn into a training facility that’s only lightly used during the year.

Moreover, Gray won’t easily get any incentives or breaks out of the D.C. Council, which would rightfully ask why city services are being cut and other development projects shelved—including a stadium for D.C. United—for a team with an openly racist name, thin-skinned owner and terrible record. Councilmember Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) may have said it best when he argued that any dreams of bringing the Redskins back are “fantasy land.”

But hey, it’ll make for some fantastic civic drama.