Entertainment and Sports Arena

The city’s conventions and sports authority is seeing higher than expected costs to run the new Entertainment and Sports Arena at the St. Elizabeths campus in Ward 8.

A Ward 8 business owner says he lost a construction bid for the Entertainment and Sports Arena despite a system meant to help local companies.

Ward 7 and 8 businesses that received funding to work on the Entertainment and Sports Arena may not be based there.

When sports gambling is formally legalized in Washington, fans will have the option to place bets in convenience stores, bars, restaurants or from their living room couches. But the most visible and elaborate betting venues could feel…

Residents of the Southeast D.C. neighborhood of Congress Heights stood by on Saturday as local politicians, developers, and tall young men holding basketballs under their arms cut into a ceremonial red ribbon with oversized scissors. They…

The basketball games haven’t begun, the concerts have yet to be played, but District resident Latreasa Woodson already was excited about what the opening of the Entertainment and Sports Arena holds for Ward 8. “I think it is great for the…

As bulldozers rumbled outside, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser took a seat in the second row of the Washington Mystics’ new arena and noted the enviable proximity. Then she stood near the center of the court, as electronic dance music was…

District officials will cut the ribbon on the new Entertainment and Sports Arena (ESA) on the St. Elizabeths East Campus on Saturday, Sept. 22. The arena will host Washington Mystics home games, Washington Wizards practices, and assorted…