D.C. street signs still direct drivers to 'MCI Center'
March 16, 2011 - 04:02 pm
The Verizon Center, the home of the Capitals, Wizards, Mystics, Georegtown basketball and dozens of events, received its new name in 2006.
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WTOP's Adam Tuss reports, though, that a few street signs near Downtown Washington are stuck in the past.
Tuss stumbled across a few directional signs that send people to the MCI Center, referring to the building's former name.
The signs with the wrong information are in at least two locations -- at the Massachusetts Avenue exit off the northbound 3rd Street Tunnel and at 6th and L Streets, NW.
Verizon Center opened in 1997 with the MCI Center moniker. However, when MCI was acquired by Verizon in 2006, the name of the arena changed.
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