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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
The DC core is obviously very different than Calgary, but I don't think WV is that far off. Verizon is a hike to get to the Mall and other touristy sites. If the football stadium is removed from the plan, I would think WV could be quite an attractive site.
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Verizon Center is about 5 minute walk from the mall, about 15 to the capital, and within 5 minutes of all 6 metro lines. I walk over to Gallery Place for lunch from a few blocks east, the restaurants are busy all day and then all evening. But it's just one of DC's downtown neighborhoods.
DC is really pedestrian, bike share, and metro-centric, which means people will walk all over about a 2 square mile area of downtown. Then, essentially all of the residential neighborhoods actually in the district are row houses and mixed with commercial. It's a walking paradise.
I'm not sure if Calgary, given the design and weather, could ever achieve something that would match the business of Verizon Center. But it could definitely, if the right location and design were picked, pull off something like the Arena District in Columbus. I'd just make the Flames pay for it.