Dec 11, 2012
Gray Grasps Reality on ‘Skins-for-FBI Business
Mayor Vince Gray still very much wants the ‘Skins to one day return to the city for which they are named, but he appears to be seeing things a bit more realistically.
After the Democratic National Convention was moved inside for its final night, more than 55,000 people who thought they were attending President Obama’s acceptance speech were shut out, including many who had plans to travel from the D.C. area.
The Sacramento Kings are very close to announcing a relocation from Central California to Virginia Beach, according to Inside Business, a newspaper in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art is contemplating selling its Beaux-Arts building on New York Avenue and 17th Street and moving elsewhere, the City Paper reports.
The T Street Station Post Office is moving up the block, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton announced in a press release yesterday. The mail depot, she said, will be relocating to the Franklin D. Reeves Center at 14th and U streets.
Just in case you thought Major League Soccer was not-too-serious about helping to facilitate D.C. United’s exit from Washington — even though they’ve been surveying Baltimore residents about potentially relocating United to the city — well, think again.