Former Editor-in-Chief Ryan Avent writes a weekly column about neighborhood and development issues. Sometimes I imagine that the vicious territoriality residents of this or that place occasionally display when comparing their home enclave to another is a sign of something positive, a rootedness and sense of belonging, maybe, to the neighborhood or city or state one calls home. If that’s the case, then residents of the cities of Baltimore and Washington must be some rooted…
When baseball’s return to the District became a reality late last year, city officials and MLB execs agreed that RFK Stadium would serve as a temporary home for the Washington Nationals. The donut-shaped stadium, some 40 years old and lacking in many of the amenities that modern team owners now demand, was merely a pit stop on the way to a new, state-of-the-art stadium in Southeast. But given the recent troubles brewing over baseball in…
Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Ca.) is just one of those guys you wish you just wouldn’t hear from anymore. First he comes along and tries to sneak legislation through that would have allowed the sale of Theodore Roosevelt Island Park to private developers, only to be shamed into removing the offending provision. Now the Post informs us that Pombo — never an enemy of corporate interests and private developers — is trying to allow the…
(Editor’s Note: And for the first part of our Nationals opening day coverage, we start outside the stadium.) As 46,000 anxious baseball fans filed slowly into Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium for the Nationals’ long-awaited return to the District, 100 students, parents and activists protested the state of the city’s schools. Standing behind a banner that boldly read “Millions for Stadiums, Peanuts For Schools,” they denounced schools in disrepair and falling behind in most education…
Continuing on the baseball theme today… If you live on East Capitol Hill and want to park by your house, be prepared. Ward 6 residents living east of 16th St. between C St. NE and C St. SE will need a special permit to park on these blocks on gamedays, as will Ward 7 residents east of 19th St and south of Florida Avenue. Many of the blocks covered in this area are normally not…
As DCist wrote a few days back, District officials are struggling to find a corporate sponsor willing to pay anywhere from $1.5 to $2 million a year for the rights to attach their name to RFK Stadium, the temporary home of the Washington Nationals, for the next three years. The Post reported on Wednesday that the U.S. Army, looking to raise its profile and boost sagging enlistment numbers, has pushed to the front of the…
When the next chapter of Washington’s baseball history is written this spring, Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium will once again become a focal point of this city’s attention. Since the Redskins moved out in 1997, it has mostly been a soccer field. And no matter how much D.C. United and MLS hype Freddy Adu, chances are you haven’t stopped by in some time. As you’re standing in line to see the Nationals in the…
Today’s news begs the question: How many of us at DCist are going to quit our daytime jobs for a shot at working for the Washington Nationals? ARAMARK Corporation, the D.C. Sports and Entertainment Commission, and Contemporary Services Corporation announced today that they are looking to fill 900 jobs at the newly refurbished RFK Memorial Stadium, which goes into official use as the Nats temporary home in 49 days. The job categories include stand…