Immediately after investing their entire histories in Washington D.C. and Maryland, two of the District of Columbia’s oldest sporting activities teams might soon be on the move.
Monumental Athletics & Entertainment—the group that owns the Wizards and Capitals, as properly as the Mystics—has spoken to governmental officials about possibly moving the two groups from Washington D.C. suitable to Northern Virginia, according to a Friday night report from The Washington Write-up.
“Two men and women familiar with the talks, together with a Monumental official, described them as preliminary and exploratory,” the Write-up documented, noting that Monumental has also been in make contact with with metropolis officials to likely fund arena upgrades.
Each teams have known as Capital A person Arena residence because the 1998 time, in advance of which they the two played in the Funds Centre in Landover, Md. The growing old building is positioned in Chinatown in downtown Washington D.C.
Northern Virginia, in the meantime, is the new home of Amazon’s 2nd headquarters—a improvement pointed out by the Post as a element in the Wizards and Capitals’ machinations.
No NBA group has moved to a distinct condition or territory on a complete-time foundation considering the fact that the Nets left New Jersey for Brooklyn ahead of the 2013 year, and no NHL crew has accomplished that considering that the Atlanta Thrashers turned the Winnipeg Jets beginning in 2012.
