"What's up with the baseball stadium?"
"How is it going to effect the Crucible?"
"Are you going to move, and if so, when?"
"Are we going to be able to find parking?"
And on and on and on. I've been getting these questions for over a year now. They started, of course, when the Southeast site was chosen for the stadium. Since the stadium opened this year, the questions are valid.
Here are the answers to the best of my knowledge:

The Crucible now has a 3 to 5 year window to remain where we are.
The "option" on the properties (the whole block) has been sold, to one of the major developers in DC.
This developer is primarily a residential developer, so with the housing market in the tank, our timeline keeps getting pushed further back. If you've been looking, there are almost a dozen properties nearing completion in SouthEast, around the stadium. There are almost 1000 rental spaces in these deeloped buildings, and all of them need to be rented before there's any interest in proceeding with the redevelopment of SouthWest... where we are. In addition, our landlord has just rented the "Lime Club" building to the owners of "Zeigfields", and they've been promised at least 3 years, which means we have at least three years. Probably more. So, realistically, we've got a 3 - 5 year window for keeping the Crucible in the space we've come to love.

What happens after that? Well, that's up to you.
The first six years of our being in these buildings has been a consistent struggle to keep up with the rent and utilities. It's month to month, every month. The last year has been fairly good, which is why we built the mezzanine. But it's time for the disparate communities that this space serves to support it... or it will go away.
There is some considerable interest to find a new home, and move the business, (there's money available) but it has to make sense business wise. In the next 2 to 3 years if we're still worrying about whether or not we've got all the bills paid, the moneyed interests will find something else to do with their investments, and I'll go work voice overs. But if the Crucible actually starts making some money, and we can retire a couple of debts, and the business model works, we'll start searching for a new home.
There's less than a handful of spaces like this anywhere, it would be a shame to loose this one because of complacency.

"You don't know what you've got till it's gone." ~ Joni Mitchell
I hope we can continue ~ Frazier

How far have we come? I recently discovered four pictures of the warehouse space we're in, as it was when I first leased it seven years ago. Check it out: