VA Beach Decides Against Hosting Training Camp

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$2.5 million to host Skins? Beach opts to pass, for now
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By Deirdre Fernandes
The Virginian-Pilot
© April 24, 2008
VIRGINIA BEACH

The city has sacked any hope of luring the Washington Redskins to Virginia Beach next year for training camp.

After more than seven months of negotiations, Jim Ricketts, director of the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau, cut off discussions with the Redskins about the camp in early April.

"We value our relationship with the Washington Redskins and would like to leave the door open for further discussion at a time when the city's financial position has improved," Ricketts wrote in an April 4 e-mail to Dave Dolton, a Redskins vice president.

Beach officials said they didn't want to spend $2.5 million in taxpayer money during a tight budget year to bring the NFL team's training camp to the resort city.

D elays in negotiations with the team made raising that amount from private sources before the summer of 2009 impossible, city officials said.

"We didn't have the time to have sponsorships lined up," said Steve Herbert, the city's chief development officer. "We certainly weren't going to make it a budget item."

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I was hoping it would come to VA Beach, because it would be so convenient
for me. Maybe they will move it back to Carlisle.