These days, downtown Washington and the location surrounding Capital One Arena are no longer an urban revival model to be celebrated.
Transparent Ted Leonsis is going to hold a block party outside of Capital One Arena Saturday night when his Wizards open their home slate of games against the Memphis Grizzlies.They’ll have photo booths, meet-and-greets with Wizards alumni Michael Adams and Harvey Grant and a live performance by J. Addo, a DMV-based artist featured on the team’s DMV music portal.They’ll be giving away T-shirts for fans attending the game, courtesy of Robinhood, the team’s new patch partner.
The Washington Post reported that the District’s commitment to a police presence during games has decreased from 27 to just three. Transparent Ted’s company, Monumental Sports, has paid off-duty officers to be there. Sources said that the city and Monumental have also made a trade deal for more officers in exchange for recruiting advertising in the building for a chronically understaffed Metropolitan Police Department.
Monumental’s advertising deal with the city speaks to the bigger issue facing the MPD — a lack of manpower. The department is down hundreds of officers and it has been difficult to attract recruits because of the police restrictions and changes enacted after George Floyd’s death in 2020. Bowser now wants to roll back some of those changes to make the job of being a police officer in the District a little less impossible.
After the arena initially opened for the 1997-1998 season, the Wizards drew 19,542, sixth in the league. But attendance dropped dramatically in the years that followed to about 15,000 per game, and the transformation of the surrounding downtown area that city officials hoped for was slow to materialize.
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