Redskins Summer Camp

[KenP]

The Virginian-Pilot
? January 4, 2008

VIRGINIA BEACH
The Washington Redskins could be calling Virginia Beach their summer home as soon as 2009.

Redskins officials are in preliminary talks with city staff to move the team?s training camp to the Virginia Beach Sportsplex in a deal that would bring professional football players, coaches and their legion of fans to the region each summer.

The discussions are still nascent, and officials from both the city and the NFL-playoffs bound Redskins have tried to keep them quiet.

But Beach officials said the Redskins are asking the city to pony up about $2.5 million, including infrastructure improvements to the Sportsplex, in exchange for moving the team?s training camp from Ashburn, just outside of Washington, D.C. to Virginia Beach.

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