Speak Out: Mayor, Councilmembers Want Redskins Back in D.C.
Residents of Hill East in Ward 6 want to know what that would mean for proposed mixed-use development in the neighborhood.
Mayor Vincent Gray appeared before a room of some 300 Capitol Hill residents to try to qualm their fears about what his lofty goal to bring the Washington Redskins back to the District would mean for their hopes of community-serving development at Reservation 13. Reservation 13 is a swath of land near RFK Stadium at the eastern edge of Capitol Hill (Hill East as many residents describe it). Since the Mayor and Councilmembers Jack Evans and Michael Brown took a trip to Tampa in late October, the community has been abuzz with concerns that a long-awaited and mired mixed-use development proposal for that same space would be jettisoned in favor of a Redskins Training facility that would be largely off-limits to the community. The Washington …
StantonSez
1:38 pm on Monday, June 6, 2011
great thoughts from the author. here's a suggestion: perhaps Ward 8 should come across the river and include the heart of Georgetown. it'd be great to use the river to bridge some of richest communities in DC with those struggling under an inattentive council. surely, g-town residents would handle such a proposal better than eastern capitol hill residents. more ›