Mike Pesca
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It was in Landover, Maryland.
And back then you had arenas in suburban locations because there was this
Movement out of the cities and the rise of the suburbs.
So sports owners thought they wanted to be where the people lived at night, not necessarily where the people worked in the day.
Well, then, of course, another generation happens and then there's a movement to bring all of the arenas and football stadiums back into cities.
Right.
And we had this movement in the 90s.
And in the and in the arts where everything was being brought back into the cities.
Well, in Washington, we're still trying to bring a a stadium back into the cities.
But if you've noticed, we are kind of in a period now where there is as much movement out of cities again as there is in sports stadiums coming into the cities.
The first of this was Atlanta.
where they decided they don't play in Atlanta anymore.
They play in Cobb County, right?
They left the city of Atlanta.
And it's weird.
It bums me that baseball is there, but it turns out it was the right business decision.
They did this based on where were the majority of their fan base.
And they decided it was Cobb County and it worked.
You've got certainly Dallas all right.
You've got the hockey and basketball are in downtown Dallas.