There’s a fight brewing between the District of Columbia and Prince George’s County in Washington’s Maryland suburbs to build a home for Major League Soccer’s D.C. United, and the Prince George’s folks speculate that D.C. was spurred in action after seeing a model of a soccer stadium as part of a town center developer Petrie Ross hopes to develop at the Greenbelt Metro station.
Washington’s city council appeared to be moving forward with a public financing package of at least $150 million for a new stadium after Ross featured the model of a soccer stadium at the recent International Council of Shopping Centers conference in Las Vegas.
“I don’t think it’s a coincidence that this happened right after they got back,” Prince George’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer David Byrd said. “It’s a fact that they saw it.” D.C. officials have since distanced themselves from the soccer stadium after the amount of funding was made public. D.C. United is known to favor a D.C. stadium to a stadium in the suburbs. “We always knew [the District] was their preferred location,” he said. “But we still feel good about where we are.”