Mayor: Constructing Nats' ballpark near RFK would be difficult

Dec. 2, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Mayor Anthony A. Williams said critics of the planned Washington Nationals ballpark south of the Capitol underestimate the cost and difficulty of building near the RFK Stadium site preferred by some members of the District of Columbia Council.
Williams said Friday that the RFK site was not pursued because it would be expensive and would make it difficult for the Nationals to play at RFK while construction is being done nearby.
Williams said he wasn't opposed to a study of the RFK site but said "we should also factor in the difficulty -- which everybody has minimized -- of putting something there."
Major League Baseball's chief negotiator, Jerry Reinsdorf, has said the sport won't consider sites beyond the Southeast plot unless the mayor asks for a change -- and that Williams has assured him that won't happen.

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