The Washington Excellent will open the 2008 MLB season on Sunday night March 30th contrary to the Atlanta Braves in their brand-new stadium, which for now, until naming legal rights are sold, will be known as Nationals Park. Your stadium is still being built as the Nationals in . closer to the beginning of Early spring Training next month along with the beginning of the '08 marketing campaign just three months aside.
MLB.com's Bill Ladson recently provided an update on the construction in their article entitled,
Supra Shoes, "New Nats ballpark serves as classroom", at wa.nationals.mlb.internet which included a photo of what the caption describes because largest video aboard to be installed in a new baseball stadium. Season tickets are already on sale. Opening night admission prices, as earlier noted here at federalbaseball.org, have risen in order to ridiculous prices.
The actual stadium will couch 41,222. The aforementioned video clip board is defined at washington.nationals.mlb.com's "New Nationals Park" web page (http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/was/ballpark/index.jsp) as:
"...state-of-the-art video and audio technology,
including a 4,400 square foot high-definition
scoreboard, as well as above 600 linear ft of LED ribbon
board along the interior bowl fascia.Inch
The stadium has been praised for its environmentally friendly construction. The newest advance of HOK/Devrouax-Purnell Architects is in schedule. The stadium's layout allows for The Capitol Dome to wear beyond the outfield wall, and according to the Nationals' official sites', "Nationals Ballpark Quick Facts", the services include, " 2,500 club seating, 1,112 suite chairs, a 500-seat founder's club together with indoor dining, and a 1,300- seat stone club with indoor dining..."
As for parking....OH S%$#! Who had been supposed to take care of airport parking,
Yes that's right! 90 days from Opening Morning, and there is still restricted parking available in the area around the new People Park. According to many recent articles, the majority of single game solution buyers and possibly even some season-ticket-plan holders are going to be asked to park in Old RFK and get mass transit, both shuttles or the Metro for the new park,
An article by Michael Neibauer as well as Craig Stouffer at www.examiner.com from April of '07 entitled, "Parking at RFK no carried out deal; D.D. United moves forward", explained the then-newly announced airport parking plans:
"The Nationals' announced Wednesday that non-season
ticket slots will have free auto parking at RFK and taxi
service to and from your new South Capital Street
ballpark.In .
In an article through Tim Lemke at www.washingtontimes.com entitled,
Supra Footwear Canada, "Parking limited at new ballpark", about January 12, 2008, Mr. Lemke writes that will:
"Gregory McCarthy, the team's director of the ballpark
region, told members of the D.C. Authority that the
Nationals can encourage single-game ticket slots to
take City or park in satellite lots since the team
barely offers enough spaces to support even its full-
season plan holders.Inch
At www.examiner.net, writer Stephen Hicks addressed your parking issue too, in an article eligible, "Stadium parking issues remain unresolved," where he reports in which:
"The Nationals, like the Deborah.C. government, are usually banking on
Metro to carry as many as half all fans south
Capitol Street ballpark.Inches
So that's 30,
Supra Shoes Canada,000 fans subscribing to the nightly drive on the Metro to really make it to 7:00pm begins at the new People Park all summer long, 30,000 fans parking at RFK Stadium, 2 miles away from the new park, Parking will be free(on the Excellent). Not the Metro, though. DC City Councilman Kwame Brown sums it best in Mr. Hicks' examiner.net article, where Mister. Hicks writes, after Excellent Senior Director George McCarthy's report to the Electricity council,
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"...he(Councilman Brown) had been frustrated that with much less
than three months right up until Opening Day, the particular parking and
targeted traffic situation remains unclear.
"'This is a first of some many hearings,
www.supracanadastores.com,I Brown said.
'We usually are not supposed to be in the organizing mode. We're
allowed to be in the implementation period.'"
It could be one exciting trip to Opening Night at Nationals Car park...
*Stadium Parking Links*
mlb.com's Expenses Ladson's article, "New Nats ballpark can serve as classroom", at washington.nationals.mlb.com:
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp,ymd=20080111&content_id=2344109&vkey=ne ws_was&fext=.jsp&c_id=was
washington.people.mlb.com's Nationals Playground page:
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/was/ballpark/index.jsp
the examiner.com's Michael Neibauer and also Craig Stouffer's article, "Parking at RFK no done offer; D.C. United moves forward" at online world.examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/a-1008959~Parking_at_RFK_no_done_deal__D_C__United_moves_forward.html
Wa Times writer Bernard Lemke's article, "Parking limited at new ballpark", at washingtontimes.org:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article,AID=/20080112/SPORTS02/804997/1026
examiner.com's Stephen Hick's article, "Stadium parking issues remain unresolved", at www.examiner.com:
http://www.examiner.com/a-1153469~Stadium_parking_issues_remain_unresolved.html
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