Washington Commanders fans are psyched for the opening game of the football season Sunday at FedEx Field in Landover.
They may not agree on whether the team will be competitive this year. But there is undeniably a new vibe in the fan base, thanks to the recent departure of one of the most detested owners in professional sports, Daniel Snyder.
In the neighborhoods surrounding FedEx Field, there’s a new vibe as well. After years of neglect — by the team, and to a lesser extent the state and local governments — the communities in what is known as the Blue Line Corridor of Prince George’s County are poised to benefit from a $400 million state investment to help redevelop properties near four Metrorail stations. The end result, if all goes as planned, could be nothing less than transformational.
“In the next several months you’re going to see a lot of shovels going into the ground,” County Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) said in a recent interview.
The Prince George’s government in 2020 developed a master plan for the area to bring an array of development to land that is mostly owned by the county or by other public entities like the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, which operates Metro. Put simply, the county wants to reimagine communities along Central Avenue into a vibrant urban area. Now commuters from the farther reaches of Prince George’s, Anne Arundel County and Southern Maryland mostly zoom through that area on the suburban six-lane highway to get to Washington, D.C.
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