Sports

Report: Shady Grove Piques Arena Football League's Interest

The AFL tells WTOP that the right building, right ownership could bring arena football to Montgomery County.

Arena Football League sent a letter of interest to developers hoping to build an indoor football arena near the Shady Grove Metro station, WTOP reports.

The AFL has wanted to come to the Washington, DC region for years and said the right building and right ownership would help make that happen, according to WTOP.

>>>See “Indoor foorball coming to Montgomery Count?”at WTOP.com.

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D & A Sports and Entertainment Group formed in 2006 with the aim of bringing arena football to Montgomery County, Patch has reported. But the project has since taken on various forms since the recession. 

In 2010, D&A Sports and Entertainment proposed a 6,500-seat arena on a site in Rockville.

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