I was looking through some Google stitched panoramas and remembered I had intended to post what may be slightly more believable information to why a particular lot should not be something to look forward to for a great period of time. They have been drilling to do soil and condition tests for a few projects including the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge.
All of those blocks south and east of the mall are landfill. It takes a lot of drilling to get footings deep enough for anything substantial. All those Crystal City buildings are just floating on landfill soil. I’m pretty sure it’s the same thing in SE DC.
Many years ago my wife and I owned a house in Woodley Park on the hillside east of Connecticut Avenue. Apparently that area was a dump from Civil War times until the early 1900's. Wardman built rows of townhouses there on "undifferenitated fill" according to geology reports. When Metro was built, the blasting for the tunnels between Dupont and Woodley/Zoo caused porches to separate from some of the houses. Ours had "stairstep" cracks on all 4 corners of the foundation from the blasting. Shake fill hard enough and everything slides. The Alaska earthquake on Good Friday 1964 shook the flood plain fill in Anchorage hard enough that it liquified and things started sliding towards the ocean.
Just saw this on LinkedIn. Congrats to Timothy Birkmeyer on his first D.C. United sale! Tim joined the team 3 weeks ago and is already a contributing member of the team! This is the first of many! so 3 weeks to sell a ticket?.....
Could you imagine if the team had some sort of topping off event scheduled with media and local leaders?
A suggestion to the moderators. Time to close this thread. @sitruc is doing yeoman work in posting pictures so maybe an Audi Field Construction thread makes sense. However the endless back and forth about disappointment/lack of disappointment regarding how the stadium actually turned out gets very old. As does the constant bashing of the FO/support of the FO regarding the stadium design, execution and first home date. Nothing much is gained, nor learned by those continued exchanges. I would much rather focus on things like: is Darren Mattocks and upgrade over Deshorn Brown and does the answer to that question really mean much in the context of the 2018 season? The stuff on the field interests me. What Audi Field will or won’t be already is baked in. The FO will have to live with it, and so will we. Time to move on.
I did some thread cleanup but am more than happy to do what the forum wants. We can keep this open and strictly moderate it to actual pictures, updates, seat selection, etc. The FO stuff can go to the FO thread - we can create a 2018 thread as well. It is up to you all. I may do a poll to get a sense of where people want to go for the Off-Season, Stadium, Other Teams, FO threads. I think the off-season thread should remain but we can start anew with Stadium, FO, and other teams. James
This is the only thread I come to on this board for. I admit that I get annoyed by the posts about how AF won't be done until September based on no information at all and the constant kvetching about what AF won't have that RFK did. But I'll take the bad with the good. If you close it, then you'll need a new Buzzard Point thread. Right now, it's the only thing about DCU that's exciting.
I think we can keep it going for stadium updates. Please note there is also an off-season thread for player acquisitions, other teams info, etc. james
I hate all the bitching on this thread unless I'm doing it. I think most of us participate with a fascination that's a little morbid. I say keep the thread open until the day the stadium opens, and then open a new one for our complaints (and compliments) based on experience. I wonder what the record is for posts on a club thread?
Update from Goff: March 3rd in Orlando City, first home match 17th, but no specific location yet. Annapolis and Richmond have been ruled out. Bigger news is team says on schedule for June....... (take that with what you want to believe) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...matches-at-audi-field/?utm_term=.792beebaf123
I think I've occasionally had a decent post in this thread. I've also been critical of the stadium location, design, FO decisions, cutbacks and more. I don't know of anyone who has said the stadium won't open until September, but there have been people (including myself) who have done something that can often seem crazy to people on the Internet and actually talked to people who may be more knowledgeable on a topic than themselves. I've talked to people I believe are more knowledgeable on the construction site and other people involved with the stadium via e-mail about the venue (they're a little more optimistic right now because of quite a bit of uninterrupted work and a lot of extended hours trying to get structural steel up). I'm a season ticket holder. I'll be at the games. I long ago decided on my plans for getting to and from games. This is my 999th post in this thread (unless more of my posts get deleted). This isn't the first soccer specific stadium in the league. It's not the only venue being constructed right now. Maybe some posters will never experience another stadium or entertainment venue in their life, but this thing doesn't exist in a vacuum. I'll appreciate it for what it is, but if I see something worth calling attention to (even if it's completely different trash cans, benches and bike racks by the new PEPCO substation), I'm not going to hold back because someone thinks people are too negative on the Internet. //anyone remember that time I did back of envelope calculations of what a solar array that matched press release figures would look like and then compared to other arrays locally and internationally on sports venues? Then I followed that up with speaking with the actual designer of the stadium who said the canopies were not designed to support solar arrays. Of course the initial roofing material had to be taken down and then I counted how many panels were in new renderings and the math still doesn't close to press releases.
Here's #1000. Meet "Flash Point," a new art installation that's sure to put the "buzz" in Buzzard Point. #PepcoArt pic.twitter.com/ergFladWmV— Pepco (@PepcoConnect) December 18, 2017 It's a thread. Check out this sneak peek of the sculpture, designed and brought to life by father-son artist duo David and Eli Hess. pic.twitter.com/eRyv07xjuc— Pepco (@PepcoConnect) December 18, 2017 We thank @TheDCArts for their collaboration in bringing this dynamic work of art to our Waterfront Substation.Stay tuned for the upcoming unveiling of Flash Point! pic.twitter.com/9tLumENkYM— Pepco (@PepcoConnect) December 18, 2017 I would like the other DC to file a lawsuit. No idea how this went yet. TONIGHT, 5pm at Southwest Library: Have you voice heard during @DOEE_DC hearing on the concrete facility on #BuzzardPoint. (Application is to only move it across the street. Neighbors want otherwise.)— The Southwester Newspaper (@TheSouthwester) December 18, 2017
@sitruc oh BTW I was totally wrong with the construction not matching the renderings look like is going according to plan
So the FO is telling Goff they are on pace to open in June.....Guess the weekend and late nights got them back on schedule.
I am completely unsupportive of this idea/these ideas. I know I'm late responding because I rarely log on from home in the evenings, but ...... There is already a thread or 3 for discussing the stuff you want to discuss, go do it. You don't have to open the dang thread if it bothers you that people have opinions about one of the biggest/best/worst/interesting things to happen to/for the team in quite a while. If you want it closed, expect that stuff you don't care about to creep into the discussions you may care more about instead.