ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- A Maryland House of Delegates committee advanced a bill that would allow the state's stadium authority to at least study the prospect of building a soccer stadium to lure the DC United to Prince George's County.
Does anyone else feel that 2012 opening day for a new 24,000-seat stadium slipping further into the future?
The House Appropriations Committee endorsed Monday legislation allowing the feasibility study. The state could spend up to $200,000 to study the site and financing options for the project, the Associated Press reported. Stadium authority officials would need to return to state budget committees to brief them on study results before they could be granted any design money for the project.
An earlier version of the bill would have allowed the Maryland Stadium Authority to sell bonds to build the potentially $195 million venue, but that provision has been removed.
State lawmakers are still waiting to hear the official opinion of the Prince George's County Council on the bill.
