They will work out parking. It will take time to get the best deals. When the zoning commission tried to corner them into committed parking agreements I thought that was pretty bogus. That, in essence, would drive up the price of parking by forcing the team to get things done on a shorter time line. By taking their time to accumulate each lot, DCU can get a better price -- which means a better price for us. The Nats were forced into their parking garage thing very quickly and not given may options. Now you have $30 and $50 parking for their games.
There's a difference between MLB forcing a team to build garages and pretending agreements are in place for surface lots that will disappear in a few years.
Don't worry. If what half of the people here are saying is true, in a fell years the ownership will cash-out and there will be a new FO.
Got my big box of air in the mail the other day. Gorgeous box. Tickets are printed nothing -- look like general admission at a minor league baseball walk up. Still can't tell you what the graphic on the back of the scarf is or means. Nothing in the little folder of value that I can see. Finally the team has a product on the field that -- ostensibly -- could be joyful to watch. But who green lights these marketing things? Honestly. "Let's send them a big mostly empty box... who wouldn't be impressed by that?" Am I missing something? Were there magic beans or a DP defender hidden in there that I just missed?
Resolved: When measured by financial outlay versus league result, DC United has the best front office in Major League Soccer.
I'm with DecadeOfDCU on this one. Those tickets are great, and the commemorative ones for the final regular season match are even better.
Ok, so does this mean that the stadium is going to be ready by the BEGINNING of 2018? Or are we expecting to have a 7-8 game road trip to start the 2018 season?
Everything I've seen (Goff, online news articles, etc.) seems to indicate that it won't be ready until June 2018 at the earliest.
If we don't play home games in 2018, they'll cut season ticket prices, right? And yeah, I got screwed on the tix, not that it matters.
That's if everything goes perfect, ha. I am interested to know back up plans if things slip.... DC says it only needs 16 months. So end of June.
I was impressed by the RBNY tickets -- "almost suitable for framing". My wife framed the Jaime Moreno farewell poster for me (now hanging in my office). I think those tickets (and maybe one scarf) will get similar treatment.
The scarf is made of nice material, and they actually gave you one for each ticket, unlike some past years - but the design on the back is a joke - I think it's supposed to be a silhouette of RFK, but the design that looks "okay" on the tickets did not translate to the scarf machine very well at all. I opened my box a second time to remove a scarf to go somewhere and the top settled funny and it did not close all the way but stayed somewhat open. By the time I got home, the weight of the lid (I guess) had ripped the top about 4 inches along a seam and the layers of cardboard started to separate. So besides all the air inside, it's constructed poorly. The "final game in RFK" tickets are nice enough. Maybe not as nice as the inaugural game at RFK ticket, but nice enough; I like the silver graphic. I hope I can find it in October since it's not attached to the rest of the tix. I think I read that we're supposed to get two more tickets to that match? Or was that either bad wording or bad understanding?
Forget whether it is offensive. Is this 1978? Are you next going to go out and score some grass from that jive turkey on the corner?