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Capital One Arena, Wizards and Capitals may move to Alexandria | Why not the RFK campus?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

October 24, 2002. From the WBJ : “I think that Chinatown will be fine even if the Verizon Center is moved,” said Ed McMahon, a senior resident fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Because downtown D.C. DC is at a disadvantage too, because unlike other jurisdictions, Congress forbids it from taxing non-residents.

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Community building versus economic development

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Transit and economic development. The velocity of change from NoMA Metrorail station was so significant it convinced me that the public investment with the fastest ROI, at least when done right, is transit. The monocentric subnetwork of the DC Metrorail system serves the core of DC.