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The Sports Junkies

H2: How Would A New Arena Impact Virginia?

The Sports Junkies

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4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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12/13 Hour 2:

Is An Arena In Virginia A Good Idea - 1:00

Tristan Navera Joins The Junkies - 16:00

Callers On The Arena Move - 33:00

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it is leaning in that direction yes the caps and the wizards will be in a new arena

0:06.4

at Potomac Yard essentially adjacent to the new Potomac Yard metro station in the next several years.

0:15.0

That's what the deal says.

0:16.2

There are a lot of hurdles and the reason I say the deal isn't done is because even

0:21.0

if there's a deal on the table, the full Virginia General Assembly still needs to approve it.

0:26.2

Alexandria, the city still needs to approve it. There are a lot of people who live nearby

0:31.0

Potomac Yard who aren't going to love all that traffic coming up and

0:35.6

down Route 1 into Potomac Yard on game days.

0:38.8

Welcome back, hour number two, where the junkies on 106,7, the fan and on TV monumental sports

0:44.4

network presented by Crop Metcalf.

0:46.3

That was Michael Neibauer from the Washington Business Journal yesterday on Grant and

0:51.5

Danny. And we're going to talk to Tristan Navarro

0:55.3

from Washington Business Journal too so it's the big story locally big it's big

0:58.9

it's big big big whether or not the Wizards and Caps move.

1:06.7

This could take weeks, months, might not happen, who knows?

1:10.4

I mean, Bowser is desperate, wants to keep them here.

1:13.0

It's so funny because...

1:14.0

So she came up with 500 mil of the 800 mil that's going to take for renovations.

1:18.0

It's so funny because it's something that's been whispered about and talked about behind the scenes

1:21.2

for a while and you know it's been a kind of an open possibility and then it just seemed

1:28.2

like everything accelerated in the last 48 hours or so point that we did a lot of the show yesterday,

1:34.2

just sort of on the idea of it,

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