Ted Leonsis Headlines Ballston BID Celebration
The Ballston Business Improvement District celebrated its first anniversary on Thursday.
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Ted Leonsis, owner of the Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards, Washington Mystics and the Verizon Center, addressed members of the Ballston business community at the Ballston Business Improvement District's 1-year anniversary celebration at the West Arlington Gateway on Thursday.
According to a press statement released by the Ballston Business Improvement District,
"Ballston, home of Kettler Capitals Iceplex, is well positioned to promote its unique community as a premier place to live, work and play. “The goal was to bring a new world-class practice facility much closer to where we play at the Verizon Center and build a fantastic place where young players wanted to come and wanted to live. We wanted to build and activate a sense of community where good things would happen in Ballston,” said Leonsis. 'I’m not sure if we [the Washington Capitals] would be able to keep MVP-caliber players, like [Alex] Ovechkin, without a facility like the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Ballston.'"
Barry
6:19 am on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Ballston is looking more and more run down, dirty buildings of undistinguished architecture, streetscape that's just grass and a few shabby trees and ornamental shrubs. Residential streets are poorly lighted and brick sidewalks are crumbling.
Janet
10:03 pm on Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Fate of every tall mixed-use building in Arlington (few exceptions) after 15 years - dirty, needs a makeover, signs faded, cracked pavement, same ornamentals and trees as when the building opened, overgrown, and drought damaged. REITs who own the buildings don't care, they're from out-of-state.