The attorney general for the District of Columbia contends that the NBA's Washington Wizards and NHL's Washington Capitals are obligated to play their games in the downtown arena through 2047, the city's latest salvo to keep the teams from leaving.
WASHINGTON — The attorney general for the District of Columbia contends that the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals are obligated to play their games in the downtown arena through 2047, the city’s latest salvo to keep the teams from leaving.
The letter comes as Monumental’s $2 billion plan for a new arena across the Potomac River in Alexandria has stalled in the Virginia legislature. “The District very much prefers not to pursue any potential claims against MSE,” Schwalb wrote in a letter dated Tuesday to Monumental general counsel Abby Blomstrom in response to one she sent to the city last month. “It remains committed to maintaining and growing its partnership with MSE and to keeping the Wizards and Capitals at the Arena until the end of the existing lease term in 2047, if not beyond.
“We wouldn’t have started negotiations with the city or Virginia over the last two years without sound, legal counsel, and we feel confident in it,” Dixon said at the time. “If this is something that results in litigation, we oughta let that process play out - I hope it won’t - but we do feel confident about the lease we signed and the amendments.”
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