Posted on 12/20/2024 6:41:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
The Washington Commanders’ plan for a new stadium in Washington, D.C., needs a recalibration.
The U.S. House of Representatives avoided a government shutdown by passing legislation that will extend funding into mid-March. However, the bill no longer includes language that would transfer control of the RFK campus in the nation’s capital from the federal government to the District.
The initial terms in a continuing resolution announced on Tuesday did include language that previously passed House and Senate committees, and would grant the District administrative control of the 174-acre campus for 99 years and allow D.C. to build a stadium along with commercial and community properties.
Even though hurdles remained to ensure a stadium project would be built on the site the NFL franchise called home for 35 years, the actions by the Commanders ownership group strongly suggested the franchise would seek to relocate from its current home in suburban Maryland.
Now, the chances of a new football stadium being built in Washington diminished unless the Commanders, led by managing partner Josh Harris, are willing to delay their stated timeline of opening a new stadium roughly by 2030.
Without a resolution before the end of this congressional session, the proposition must start from scratch after months of discussion if the District, federal government officials and the Commanders choose to begin anew.
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Is the multinational censorship body in or out?
If they told the fans that for $1K donation they would change the teams name back to The Redskins and name the stadium Redskins Stadium they could get er done in no time.
As a Redskin fan since the 1960s, I say excellent news...
Need to build the new Redskins stadium in VA...
Stay out of those two communist cesspools DC & MD (where I live)...
Congressmen have no clue.
At all.
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