It's Official!
Mayor Tony Williams signed the stadium financing bill. Barring something catastrophic, we've got our team! (Hmmm.... maybe I should go buy some insurance now, just in case)
Now, we just have to see how Marion Berry can gum up the works with needless delays. As I've said before, he and any others are going to need to be held accountable for any unnecessary construction delays and resulting cost overruns because of their politcal posturing. The stadium funding bill is done and over. No matter the merits of their argument, their side lost the debate and it's time to move on. Any increase in costs, because of their delays, will be borne by the residents of DC who they claim they're trying to protect. They must be held accountable for that.
"It's a great day in our city," Williams said. "This baseball park is good for the city. Maybe I could have done a few things differently, but I never regretted what I did. It's not good just for the psychology of the city, but it's good for the city economically. I really, really believe that."
Now, we just have to see how Marion Berry can gum up the works with needless delays. As I've said before, he and any others are going to need to be held accountable for any unnecessary construction delays and resulting cost overruns because of their politcal posturing. The stadium funding bill is done and over. No matter the merits of their argument, their side lost the debate and it's time to move on. Any increase in costs, because of their delays, will be borne by the residents of DC who they claim they're trying to protect. They must be held accountable for that.

4 Comments:
Baseball economically good for D.C.? A few short sighted sports yahoos and a city that finds something redemptive in Marion Berry should not be allowed to foist $300 + million of debt onto a populace with bigger issues to overcome: Healthcare and education to name two. Shameless.
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The Bosnian, at 12/29/2004 4:06 PM
I'm not quite sure I follow your logic there. Isn't the populace that's being foisted upon the same that's in love with Berry?
The big point to remember, is that the revenue used to build the stadium is coming from completely new sources that would not exist were it not coming from the stadium. Yes, education and health care need to be funded properly, but you weren't going to get a gross receipts tax through the business community to fund it. And you certainly wouldn't have the tax revenue from concessions and ticket sales.
I'm not convinced that the stadium is going to be an economic boom for the city, but I'm pretty sure it's not going to be the drain that some opponents are painting it as either.
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Chris Needham, at 12/30/2004 8:56 AM
I agree with Chris. The city is paying for this primarily from money that it takes from baseball, either through lease payments or through taxing patrons of the stadium. The rest of the bill is being funded by businesses that, as a group, have agreed to be taxed for this purpose (and never would have for education, etc.), and a bit by the federal government.
This is no great hardship on D.C., nor is it stupid. They will receive great economic benefits in drawing dollars from the suburbs into the city, particularly if they can build a bit of an economic district around the new stadium (which they could not really do at RFK).
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