Capital One Arena was in a better location too. More lines running through the Metro station. Now it will be located in Northern Virginia so it will be harder for fans from Maryland to attend the games.
The only bad thing about Capitol One Arena is that crime is high again. The past 20 years, they were able to gentrify the area. But now all of it has gone to $#it.
No "gentrified" area that gets "de-gentrified" has ever been "re-gentrified"...
Particularly when that gentrified area lies in the middle of vile crime areas of corruption organized & controlled by a crime family comprised of both DC and the federal government...
You have all of that spot on. That downtown arena was great when DC cleaned the area up (like 15 years ago), but democraps have let criminals run the streets again. Traffic is going a problem in that area.