The letter below was written by D.C. United's Co-Managing Partners, Victor MacFarlane and Will Chang.

Dear D.C. United Fan,

As the season has come to a close, we want to share a few decisions and update you, our fans – the very best fans and supporters in major league sports.

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While United supporters recovered Thursday from a night of celebrating their club's U.S. Open Cup victory, the team packed their bags and flew cross-country to begin preperations for tonight's League match against San Jose. It's tough sledding for the Black-and-Red this weekend. United faithful in the Nation's Capital are dealing with Hurricane Hanna.

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D.C. United Co-Managing Partner Victor MacFarlane has put his San Francisco condo - all 20,000 square feet and two floors of it - up for sale. The price tag is $70 MILLION.

Interested?

To put this into perspective:

• the construction costs of a stadium at Poplar Point would total about $150 million.

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Building a soccer stadium hasn't been easy in most MLS cities, and the situation has dragged on for a quite a while in Washington despite the presence of a successful team embraced by the community.

But D.C. United president Kevin Payne says no one should be alarmed by a recent Washington Business Journal report suggesting stadium talks could be hindered by layoffs at team owner Victor MacFarlane's company.

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The number one topic of conversation today must be the Washington Post's A1 article on Mayor Fenty's pending public support for development of a soccer stadium at Poplar Point. This development is, naturally, being hailed a huge one, even with everyone acknowledging that we are still years away from playing in a home of our own.

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I recently received two e-mails from Bisnow on Business that may be of interest to DC United fans. Bisnow is in its own words, a "People's Magazine for various professional sets in the area." Its commercial real estate e-newsletter recently profiled Victor MacFarlane and his DC real estate ventures. The newsletter had a bunch of interesting factoids about Mr. Click to continue reading...

When DC United and Victor MacFarlane decided to go public with its Poplar Point initiative, I wanted to make sure that I took the time to really think about whether this initiative is one we can support. The reason, as Kinney remarked to me recently, that this is coming out now is that future Poplar Point development plans will either be guided by the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation's (AWC) plans, or by an alternate vision.

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