Paisley Junior Misses Important Point in Washington
Last week Ian Paisley Jr. (Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister) visited Nationals Park, “a key social and economic regeneration project in Washington DC” centred around the building of a new baseball stadium. The stadium is being built as the new home for the Washington Nationals baseball team and will be the focus of a regeneration effort encompassing business, residential and retail projects. You can see where he’s going with this, right?
His visit serves to highlight the enormous benefits to the economy the building of a new stadium can bring in terms of regeneration etc.
“It is clear that this site will also become not only a thriving economic platform for small and minority business but a social centre for the local community.”
Ian Paisley Jr, OFMDFM Junior Minister
Hopefully while he was there he’ll have taken note that the site of Nationals Park is approximately one mile from the US Capitol buildings, not in a field 10 miles outside the city. There isn’t much of a community to use the Maze stadium as a “social centre” since there’s not a built-up area around for miles!