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TexasTowelie

(112,350 posts) Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:00 AM Dec 2018

Deal in works to build new Redskins stadium in Maryland in exchange for Western Maryland park land,

Deal in works to build new Redskins stadium in Maryland in exchange for Western Maryland park land, Hogan says

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday touted a tentative agreement he’s reached with federal officials to swap park land in Western Maryland to build a new stadium for the Washington Redskins football team in Prince George’s County.

The Republican governor declined to release additional details about the plans — including the site under consideration in Western Maryland — saying the proposals were far from finalized. An administration spokeswoman said officials were declining to release memorandums of understanding concerning the deals because they are still drafts. She added that Maryland taxpayers have incurred no costs thus far.

But Hogan touted the potential of building a new stadium for the Redskins on 300 acres of federal property at Oxon Cove Park to reporters gathered at a school construction event in Landover. He called the site “beautiful” and “wonderful.”

"Can you imagine the Redskins stadium on ‘Monday Night Football’ looking at all the monuments reflecting on the Potomac River?” Hogan said. “It'd be the nicest facility in America, with 300 acres to develop around there for entertainment, restaurants, whatever we decided."

Read more: https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bs-md-hogan-redskins-20181211-story.html

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Deal in works to build new Redskins stadium in Maryland in exchange for Western Maryland park land, (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP

I don't know how Maryland feels about it, but their current stadium is an absolute dump. bearsfootball516 Dec 2018 #1

It's a beautiful 300 acres because it has not been developed Farmer-Rick Dec 2018 #2

Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Cove Farm is a national historic district elleng Dec 2018 #3

-- and will this include corporate welfare, paid for by sucker taxpayers? 3Hotdogs Dec 2018 #4

bearsfootball516

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1. I don't know how Maryland feels about it, but their current stadium is an absolute dump.

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:01 AM

Dec 2018

Farmer-Rick

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2. It's a beautiful 300 acres because it has not been developed

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 09:34 AM

Dec 2018

Develop it now and it is ruined for eternity. But hey, you got to have that circus to keep the masses distracted.

Do you really need to destroy a 300 acre park for a football game? Obviously you do when you have a RepubliCON governor.

elleng

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3. Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Cove Farm is a national historic district

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 12:27 PM

Dec 2018

that includes a living farm museum operated by the National Park Service, and located at Oxon Hill, Prince George's County, Maryland. It is part of National Capital Parks-East. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.[1] The park provides an excellent resource for environmental studies, wildlife observing, fishing, and other recreational activities made possible by easy access to the Potomac River. Fourteen buildings and two structures are located in the historic district and associated with the property's sequential development as a plantation, an institutional agricultural complex, and a farm museum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxon_Cove_Park_and_Oxon_Hill_Farm

3Hotdogs

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4. -- and will this include corporate welfare, paid for by sucker taxpayers?

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Wed Dec 12, 2018, 03:04 PM

Dec 2018

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