Entertainment and Sports Arena, the home of the NBA G League's latest expansion team, the Capital City Go-Go, is located in the Anacostia neighborhood of Southeast Washington, D.C., the most economically disadvantaged neighborhood of the nation's capital. The $55 million venue is built on land that once served as a 346-acre psychiatric hospital.
Three blocks away, on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue and Malcolm X Avenue, there's a Popeyes and a Mart Liquor, where corner boys post up day and night. Litter covers patches of dead grass at Shepherd Parkway, a nearby federal park that has long been described as an eyesore for residents.