The Endless Story: Ex-Redskins’ Training Center in Anacostia Still Ain’t Open

I've written a whole lot over the years about the old Carver Theater building in Anacostia. Control of the property was transferred years ago from the city to the Good Samaritan Foundation, a non-profit group founded by Redskin heroes Art Monk and Charles Mann.

The beloved former athletes acquired the public land after promising the locals in 1999 that they'd turn the building into a job training center for poor kids. And over the years they have raised millions of dollars with that same pledge.

They've even hosted at least three groundbreaking ceremonies for the press at the job training center site since 2001, and actually began building on the site a couple years ago.

But no such facility has ever opened.

Perhaps Monk and Mann's group has been doing great deeds over the years at other sites around town while waiting for the Anacostia center to open; its website claims that "[m]ore than 65 students have participated in" its training program since 1997.

That's not a lot of kids per year, for sure, given the publicity and bucks thrown the Good Samaritan Foundation's way.

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