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July 11, 2003
D.C. Baseball Update
Eric Fisher of the Washington Times has another great article on the prospects of putting a stadium in Northern Virginia to house the Montreal Expos. The owners of the land that contains one of the proposed stadium sites, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation and the H Street Building Corp., have started an intense public relations campaign to let the world know they aren't interested in selling their site. Further, this effort included a poll of Arlington, Virginia county residents that found that 65 percent of them are against building a stadium. A poll taken recently by the Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority found that 55 percent of Arlingtonians actually favored a stadium. "We have owned this land for more than 50 years and intend to continue to own it for another 50 years, and another 50 years after that," said Jack Ritchie, H Street Building Corp. president. "There has been much speculation about the possibility that, if we do not agree to sell to the Stadium Authority, they may attempt to take our site by condemnation. It's an unfortunate situation when a long-term landowner is forced to incur substantial expense to keep the government from coming along and taking his property for what is really a private use." Ritchie said he and the foundation would not sell "at any price."
Eric
09:40 AM
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