Within the past few days, a series of bright yellow signs have appeared along N Street and Half Street, across from the northern edge of the
ballpark site--the signs are all from
Monument Realty, which has spent nearly $40 million buying property to build nearly 750,000 sq ft of mixed-use offerings as part of the
Ballpark District (not the area on the stadium land that the
parking garage squabble is endangering, but the two blocks between N and M and South Capitol and 1st). The signs have big baseball-related slogans on them, like "Play Ball!", "Heavy Hitter", "Home Run" and so on, and then the Monument Realty name and logo, but no information on what's coming. A
Post article from March did quote Monument as saying that they plan to begin construction in early 2007, so perhaps we'll hear details before long.