Baseball stadium master planning -- late notice workshop -- TOMORROW

One of the renderings produced by one city agency or another for the coming Washington Nationals Baseball Stadium.

From Anthony Rivera, ANC6C Planning and Zoning Committee chair:

The Anacostia Waterfront Initiative, Office of Planning and the Departmentof Transportation are sponsoring the following meeting:

South Capitol Street Corridor and Baseball Master Plan Community Workshop

Saturday, April 23, 2005, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Van Ness Elementary School Auditorium , 1150 5th Street SE (at M Street SE)


Image from the Baltimore Sun website (registration required) section on "DC Baseball."
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As I have discussed before, the city could do a good job here, or screw things up big time. I will try to attend, if only to promote the importance of thinking more broadly about transit as discussed in these previous blog entries: "Streetcar Short Line for (Future) Baseball Stadium Transportation (Inspired by DCist)" (From Tuesday April 19th); http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2005/03/baseball-hot-dogs-apple-pie-and.html;
http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2005/03/unforced-error-dc-officials-bobble.html; and "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pie and Business as Usual" from Wednesday February 23rd and in that month's archive.

Trolley at Union Station, probably in the 1950s. A shortline streetcar comparable to Cleveland's Waterfront line could run from the Navy Yard Metro-Stadium northward to provide direct connections to the blue and orange subway lines at Capitol South, and to the red line at Union Station.