Posts Tagged ‘Verizon Center’

Blasted By Opposition to Lighted Signs on Verizon Center, Ted Leonsis Asks For More Time

Will Verizon Center owner Ted Leonsis ever be able to put giant lighted signs on his sports complex? There have sure been some bumps in the road.
Leonsis' Monumental Sports and Entertainment already postponed a hearing on legislation that would allow nine digital displays of indeterminate size, after hearing some feedback that downtown residents weren't too [...]

Defining the Living Downtown: Can We Have Both Residents and Glitz?

Over the last couple of decades, the District has tried very hard to get people to move downtown, mostly through zoning and density bonuses for residential development. It's worked: The four Census tracts that make up the downtown core have grown between 61.5 and 92.5 percent since 2000 (granted, there are still only a few [...]

Downtown Will Be Crowded in Mid-July

Get ready, D.C.: The Dalai Lama is playing the Verizon Center this July, and bringing as many as 20,000 people with him.
For the first time ever, the District will host the Kalachakra, the most well-attended ritual in the Buddhist tradition. In brief, it involves the creation and destruction of a sand mandala, as well as [...]

Abe Pollin, Verizon Center Developer, Dies at 85

In case you haven't spotted the news over at City Desk (or every other outlet covering D.C.), I thought I should mention D.C.'s biggest, late-breaking news this afternoon: Abe Pollin, developer extraordinaire, sports team owner, and philanthropist, has passed away.
He suffered from  corticobasal degeneration, according to the Washington Post.

Among his many accomplishments, Pollin developed [...]