Nats Return: a litttle closer?
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:13 pm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Sep16.html
"A 12-hour meeting this week between Major League Baseball and District negotiators, which centered on the logistics of moving the Montreal Expos into Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, shows that baseball's decision on the team's future has taken on new urgency, officials on both sides said yesterday.
The officials said time is running short to renovate RFK as an interim site for games if the District is chosen as the Expos' new home, and they noted that the chances of getting a stadium financing package passed by the D.C. Council will diminish when a new council takes office in January. Three candidates who campaigned against public financing of a new stadium defeated council incumbents in Tuesday's Democratic primary and are likely to win the general election in November."
Also: the article mentions that it will cost about $15 million to make RFK ready for games.
That's a lot cheaper than $300 million for a new stadium (which is cheaper than the $500 - $800 million stadium that George Steinbrenner wants, by the way...is DC lucky?).
Why not keep RFK?
"A 12-hour meeting this week between Major League Baseball and District negotiators, which centered on the logistics of moving the Montreal Expos into Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, shows that baseball's decision on the team's future has taken on new urgency, officials on both sides said yesterday.
The officials said time is running short to renovate RFK as an interim site for games if the District is chosen as the Expos' new home, and they noted that the chances of getting a stadium financing package passed by the D.C. Council will diminish when a new council takes office in January. Three candidates who campaigned against public financing of a new stadium defeated council incumbents in Tuesday's Democratic primary and are likely to win the general election in November."
Also: the article mentions that it will cost about $15 million to make RFK ready for games.
That's a lot cheaper than $300 million for a new stadium (which is cheaper than the $500 - $800 million stadium that George Steinbrenner wants, by the way...is DC lucky?).
Why not keep RFK?
